Ohio archæological and historical quarterly (1887)
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society · Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe · leaf 67
f his fleet andthe number of men that he had to fight, and compare his arma-ment with that which would go into a modern naval battle be-tween great nations, we wonder at the smallness of the elements 56 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. of such a world-wide victory, but when we note1 the… … Perrys Flag Ship Niagara. to the direct fire from the decks of these vessels at hardly pistolrange, and then note how he took a second flagship and boredown ui)on his two formidable assailants, in the half exhaustedcondition in which his own attacks had left them, and made themstrike their colors…
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