 | History - 1796 - 690 pages
...to board, which they did; but the moment they were on board her, they difcovered a fuperior number laying under cover with pikes in their hands ready, to receive them ; on which our people retreated inftantly into our own Ihip, and returned to their guns again till... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...to board, which they did ; but the moment they were on board her, they difcovered a fuperior number laying under cover with pikes in their hands ready to receive them ; on which our people retreated inftantly into our own fhip, and returned to their guns again till... | |
 | English literature - 1779 - 756 pages
...to board; which they did : but the moment they were on board her, they difcovered a fuperior number laying under cover with pikes in their hands ready to receive them ; on which our people retreated ¡niUiii Iy intq our own (hip, and returned to their guns again till... | |
 | History - 1796 - 692 pages
...to board, which they did ; but the moment they were on boa'rd her, they difcovered a fuperior number laying under cover with pikes in their hands ready to receive them ; on which our people retreated inltantly into our own (hip, and returned to their guns again till... | |
 | History - 1802 - 684 pages
...to board, which they did ; but the moment they were on board her, they difcovered a fuperior Dumber laying under cover with pikes in their hands ready to receive them ; on which oar people retreated inllantly into our own flup, and returned to their guns again till... | |
 | John Campbell - Admirals - 1813 - 546 pages
...board, which they did ; hut the " moment they were on board her, they discovered a " superior number, laying under cover, with pikes in " their hands ready to receive them, on which our people " instantly retreated into our own ship, and returned to " their guns again till... | |
 | Samuel Putnam Waldo - Presidents - 1823 - 418 pages
...to board, which they did ; but the moment they were on board her, they discovered a superior number laying under cover with pikes in their hands ready to receive them, on which our people retreated instantly into our own ship, and returned to their guns again till past... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...to board, which they did ; but the moment they were on board her, they discovered a superior number laying under cover with pikes in their hands ready to receive them, on which our people retreated instantly into our own ship, and returned to their guns again till halfpast... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 374 pages
...to board, which they did, but the moment they were on board her, they discovered a superior number laying under cover with pikes in their hands ready to receive them, on which our people retreated instantly to their guns again till past 10, when the frigate coming across... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 400 pages
...to board, which they did, but the moment they were on board her, they discovered a superior number laying under cover with pikes in their hands ready to receive them, on which our people retreated instantly to their guns again till past 1 0, when the frigate coming... | |
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... ten, when the frigate coming across our stern and pouring her broadside into us again, without our being able to bring a gun to bear on her... 
