General Taylor And His Staff Comprising Memoirs of Generals Taylor Worth Wood
General Taylor And His Staff Comprising Memoirs of Generals Taylor Worth Wood
W J William Julius Mann
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She sailed from New York on the 14th of January, 1815, and sbon after encountered a British fleet, consisting of the Majestic razee, the Endymion, Tenedos and Pomona frigates, and a gun brig, and was captured after a most gallant defence, — one of the opposing fri- gates, the Endymion, having been first disabled and her fire silenced in full view of the other ships of the hostile squadron. By some untoward accident, the senior marine officer did not sail in the President, and that arm of the se...rvice was commanded on this occasion by Lieutenant Twiggs — who by this time had attained the grade of first lieutenant — with such consummate skill and gal- lantry as to elicit the warmest applause of his commander, and to obtain honourable mention of his name in the commodore's official despatches. Lieutenant Twiggs' command numbered fifty-six men, who, as is stated in Mackenzie's Naval History, discharged during the action five thousand cartridges, and whose fire -was pronounced by Commodore Decatur '' incomparable.
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