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Narrative and critical history of America (1884)

Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin & Co. · leaf 309

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3 guns.Though the crews of Arnolds flotilla were landsmen, he maintained adesperate fight from eleven in the forenoon until dark, when, availinghimself of the obscurity of a thick fog, he escaped with part of his ves-sels, unobserved, through the enemys fleet; but, owing to adverse winds • I Irom… … THE STRUGGLE FOR THE HUDSON. 293 and his crippled condition, he was overtalcon on the 13th off Split Rock,where he was again attacked. Some of his flotilla escaped and some werecaptured, but he himself, after fighting four hours, ran his remaining ves-sels ashore, set them on fire with their flags…

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