This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... in defiance; and beginning, perhaps, to have more doubt than he had expressed that Commodore Chauncey would send him the deficient officers and men, he determined to set sail with those that he had, and such volunteers as he could procure from the army, and put all to the issue of a battle, which he was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... in defiance; and beginning, perhaps, to have more doubt than he had expressed that Commodore Chauncey would send him the deficient officers and men, he determined to set sail with those that he had, and such volunteers as he could procure from the army, and put all to the issue of a battle, which he was especially anxious should be fought before the enemy's squadron should be re-enforced by his new and heavy ship the Detroit, which had been launched on the seventeenth of July, and might soon be expected to appear on the lake, and which would give to the enemy a great superiority in tonnage as well as in number of guns. In estimating the hardihood of Perry's determination to fight at once with a squadron but half manned with the worst materials, and these half crews farther reduced by sickness, we must also take into consideration that there could have been but little leisure for exercising the guns or training the boarders, pikemen, sail-trimmers, and firemen to the various duties essential to the offensive and defensive operations of a naval engagement. When the able-bodied men of the squadron were kept working incessantly almost by day and night, humanity, as well as the duty of preserving them from utter exhaustion, forbade any exertion, however essential, not connected with the urgent occupations of the moment. Still opportunity had been found, during the last few days that the squadron remained within the harbour of Erie, to station the crews carefully at quarters, and to give them a general idea of all their duties. During several hours of each of these days the men were exercised thoroughly at the guns, and Perry went round in person to see that each man understood his peculiar duty; that the evolutions for loading and firing were...
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