The Life of Silas Talbot: A Commodore in the Navy of the United StatesJ. C. Riker, 1850 - 137 pages |
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accordingly American officer anchor Argo armed army boat Boston brave bravery brig Bristol British broadside Captain Talbot Captain Truxton captivity captured character coast Colonel Colonel Talbot colony command commission Commodore Talbot Congress Constitution Count D'Estaing countrymen craft crew cruise deck dence desire Domingo East Passage enemy enemy's enterprise esteem favor fire-ship French fleet frigate gallant galley gave George Fox harbor Hawk heart honor HORATIO GATES Hull humble servant J. C. RIKER JOHN ADAMS JOHN JAY justly land letter letter-of-marque Lieutenant Lieutenant Colonel Long Island Major Talbot marine ment merit Narraganset native naturally naval Navy New-York Newport night noble occasion orders patriotic Pigot Port Platte prisoners prizes Providence received rendered renowned Revolution Rhode Island sail Sandwich ship shore side Silas Talbot sloop soon spirit Sullivan tain Talbot tion tory town troops TUCKERMAN twelve guns United valor vessel vicinity Washington zeal
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Page 113 - Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee;— The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea!
Page 71 - Virginia in the army of the United States, raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof. You are, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of colonel, by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging.
Page 113 - Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave : Nail to the mast her holy flag. Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!
Page 37 - Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty-four, it was, among other things, conceded and agreed, that no freeman within the said province of New Jersey should at any time be molested, punished, disquieted or called in question, for any difference in opinion or practice in matters of religious concernment, who do not actually disturb the civil peace...
Page 74 - March 1780, congress resolved " that any interest the United States may have in the capture of the Betsey, by the sloop Argo, Captain Silas Talbot, be relinquished to the said captain, and the officers, seamen and marines, under his command, at the time of the capture.
Page 119 - Sally's movements were so well timed, as to permit her to arrive off the harbour's mouth at the proper hour. The Sandwich was lying with her broadside bearing on the approach, and there was a battery at no great distance to protect her. As soon as near enough to be seen, Mr. Hull sent most of his people below, and getting an anchor ready over the stern, to bring the sloop up with, he stood directly for the enemy's bows. So admirably was every thing arranged, that no suspicion was excited, the Sally...
Page 30 - Resolved, That Captain Silas Talbot, of the State of Rhode Island, be promoted to the rank and have the pay of Major in the Army of the United States, in consideration of his merit and services in a spirited attempt to set fire to one of the enemy's ships of war, in the North River, last year; and that he be 211 recommended to General Washington, for employment agreeable to his rank.
Page 72 - Grenville's observations on the act of Congress for the relief and protection of American seamen, present difficulties which demand consideration at the ensuing session. But your reasoning, in your letter to his lordship of the 30th of last November, is conclusive against the British pretences to retain real American seamen who are married in their dominions, or who have voluntarily entered on...
Page 63 - The Marine Committee, to whom was referred the letter from Major Silas Talbot, brought in a report; Whereupon, Resolved, That Congress have a high sense of the bravery and good conduct of Major Silas Talbot, of the State of Rhode Island, and the officers and men under his command, in boarding and taking the armed schooner Pigot...
Page 63 - Pigot, of eight twelvepounders and forty -five men, in the East Passage, between Rhode Island and the main; and that he, as a reward of his merit, and for the encouragement of a spirit of enterprise, be presented with the Commission of Lieutenant Colonel in the Army of the United States.