Book of memory
Signalling to his companions to close with their adversaries and board, he laid his vessel alongside the nearest gunboat and in a trice every American of the crew was swarming over the enemy's bulwarks.Then they grasped their sweeps again, and the little vessel glided away through a hail of grape and round shot from the Tripolitan batteries book of memory and men of war.The rest lay flat on the deck, in the shadow of the bulwarks or weather boards.SPENCE'S BOLD book of memory DEED.Thereupon the American blockading squadron took up a position within range, and threw solid shot into the felucca until she was a complete wreck.Behind her lay moored two Tripolitan cruisers, and book of memory near by was a fleet of gunboats.Not a man had been lost in the whole affair.Her foremast was again in place, the holes in her bottom book of memory were plugged, the scars of battle were effaced, and she rode at anchor as pretty a frigate as ever delighted the eye of a tar.On all sides the splashing of water told that the affrighted Turks were trying to make their escape that way.And so, after flooding the magazine, throwing book of memory overboard all the small arms, and knocking holes in the bottom of the ship, Bainbridge reluctantly surrendered.
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