Abbot's fighting history of the American navy — privateers and frigates, the Bon Homme Richard and the Constitution, told battle by battle with the smoke still in the rigging.

Bermudian Privateer

2 pages in this part of The Naval History of the United States.

Bermudian Privateer

CITIZENS. Remember there have been near three hundred of our American vessels taken by these Bermudians, and have received the most…

Bermudian Privateer: French

Popular sympathy is at best but an unstable sentiment, and so it proved with this unreasoning affection of the American people for France…

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