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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grasse-Tilly , Francois Joseph Paul , Count de 1723 -1788 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Heintzelman , Samuel Peter 1805 -1880 (search)
Peacock, the
A notable war-vessel of the United States in the War of 1812, mounting eighteen guns.
In March, 1814, under command of Captain Warrington, she sailed from New York on a cruise.
She
Warrington medal. was off the coast of Florida for some time without encountering any conspicuous adventure.
On April 29, Warrington discovered three sails to the windward, under convoy of an armed brig of large dimensions.
The two war-vessels made for each other, and very soon a close and severe battle ensued.
the Peacock was so badly injured in her rigging at the beginning that she was compelled to fight running at large, as the phrase is. She could not manoeuvre much, and the contest became one of gunnery.
the Peacock won the game at the end of forty minutes. Her antagonist, which proved to be the Épervier, eighteen guns, Captain Wales, struck her colors.
She was badly injured, no less than forty-five round-shot having struck her hull.
Twenty-two of her men were killed or woun
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Washington's inauguration, Centennial of
On April 29 and 30, 1889, the city of New York celebrated the centennial of the inauguration of George Washington as the first President of the United States.
The occasion was also observed quite generally throughout the country, but nowhere in so imposing a manner as in the city in which that inauguration had taken place.
The celebration was opened with a naval parade in the harbor on the morning of April 29. President Harrison, following as nearly as possible the same route of travel as President Washington, was conveyed by water from Elizabethport to New York, being escorted by a committee of governors, commissioners of State, and other distinguished personages.
Upon his arrival in the East River he was transferred to a barge manned by a crew of ship-masters from the Marine Society of the Port of New York, and by them rowed to the shore.
The crew of the barge that rowed President Washington from Elizabethport to the foot of Wall Str