Oliver Hazard Perry And the Battle of Lake Erie volume 2
Oliver Hazard Perry And the Battle of Lake Erie volume 2
James Cooke Mills
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The movement itself was most fit, and was made promptly and without con- fusion. By this disposition of the Niagara, the Ariel and the Scorpion were now in the lead; and the former Perry placed on his weather bow where, having no bulwarks, she might be partially under cover. The long guns of these schooners and the Caledonia supplied in a measure the want of long gun power in the Lawrence, which was now between them, while standing down out- side of carronade range, but within range of the long... guns of the enemy. The Caledonia, with the schooners in the rear, gave a like support to the Niagara. This was a very important arrangement, since the British fleet, it will be remembered, had a preponderance of long guns. Their thirty-five long guns to only fifteen in the American fleet gave them, in action at a distance, a decided advantage ; but in close action the weight of metal fired in a broadside greatly favored the Americans. While they thus slowly bore up for action, martial music struck up the thrilling signal of "all hands to quarters"; and soon after Perry produced the blue burgee, or fighting flag, bearing in large white letters tl)o imniorlal words of the dying Lawrence, "Don't give up the ship.
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