The Naval History of the United States

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.

CHAPTER 11

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

Chapter 11

W HILE France and England were waging a desperate and bloody war, the United States was like a shuttlecock, being struck repeatedly by the…

CHAPTER 11: French

Such were the sentiments of the French sympathizers, or Democrats as they were then termed in political parlance. But the English…

CHAPTER 11: Congress

But the depredations of the enemies of American commerce at last reached such a point that Congress could no longer overlook the necessity…

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