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.

Commodore Esek Hopkins

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

Commodore Esek Hopkins

people congregated on the streets, demanding reparation. The authorities sent a message to Capt. Reid, demanding that the man who fired the…

Commodore Esek Hopkins: Liberty

And, receiving no response, the lookout gave the alarm, and the watch came tumbling up, just in time to be driven below or disarmed by the…

Commodore Esek Hopkins: Newport

But the exploit was not to end here. With the high tide the next day, the hulk of the sloop floated away, and drifted ashore again on Goat…

Commodore Esek Hopkins: Gaspee

This was the affair of the "Gaspee," - considered by many historians the virtual opening of the revolutionary struggle of the Colonies…

Commodore Esek Hopkins: Boston

To almost every young American the story of the Boston tea-party is as familiar as his own name, - how the British Parliament levied a tax…

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