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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 5 (search)
n out any further. The Shannon instantly and proudly hauled up, the ships approached each other, and the action commenced at scarcely pistol-shot distance. Captain Broke of the Shannon, then in the prime of life, thirty-nine years old, was a noble officer and a strict disciplinarian. He had invented some improvement in ships' as vigorously returned by the Chesapeake, though she did not fire a gun till fairly alongside, when she poured in a broadside that sounded like one report. But Capt. Broke, in his official account, says he soon observed that her men were flinching from her guns, when he seized the favorable moment to lead his boarders on to the deving the Chesapeake, but it gave no satisfaction. No action in the war of 1812 occasioned greater mortification to Americans, or more exultation in England. Capt. Broke was welcomed home with great distinction, and knighted. (He died in 1840.) The Chesapeake was a clumsy, unlucky old frigate, built at Baltimore or Norfolk in 1