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.

Edwin Bouldin

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

Edwin Bouldin

Pathetic letters such as this appear often in the columns of the newspapers published in the early part of this century, and are usually…

Edwin Bouldin: Porter

Capt. Porter replied that his was an American ship, and the British might board at their peril; for he was armed, and would resist the…

Edwin Bouldin: Perry

Oliver Hazard Perry, of whose famous victory over the British on Lake Erie we shall speak later, also was brought into conflict with the…

Edwin Bouldin: Barney

To this list of American seamen who suffered indignities at the hands of the British, and afterwards won reparation from their enemies in…

Edwin Bouldin: Sampson

It was in the summer of 1793, that the good ship "Sampson," two days out from Cape François, West Indies, was slowly making her way…

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