Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 224
into this distant sea, andthe British frigates were making things very un-comfortable for the few American merchantmenengaged in the Pacific trade. The arrival of the Essex soon changed all that. Within a year shehad captured four thousand tons of British ship-ping, and had taken four hundred… … THE BATTLE OF THE ESSEX W.TH THE »PH<EBE» AND THE £ o?oneX™eespaid with money found on rthat shouM b< *>« -ough * ^ her. Orders were given that the F«pv» , i V*6 Amencan friSate «as fleet, and difficult to destroyed, at alf hazards by anv Br rH r ^ ^^ in FebrUar> l8l4 ^e frigate, Vol.…
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