I had let fall my foretopsail and foresail, but the want of tacks and sheets rendered them almost useless to us, yet we were enabled for a short time to close with the ene-my ; and although our decks were now strewed with dead, and our cockpit filled... Historical Sketches of the Late War, Between the United States and Great ... - Page 244 by John Lewis Thomson - 1816 - 359 pages Full view -
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