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Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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-war Frolic, of twenty-two guns,after a hard-fought battle of forty-fiveminutes, losing but eight men, whilethe loss of his enemy, in a vessel one-third his superior, was eighty men. Capture of a British Frigate. Third. On the 25th of October, Cap-tain Decatur, in command of the frigateUnited States, of forty-four guns, metand captured the British frigate Mace-donian, mounting forty-nine guns andmanned by three hundred men. Theaction continued an hour and a half.The loss of the Macedonian was thirty-six killed and sixty-eight wounded;while the loss on the United States wasonly seven killed and five wounded.The Macedonian was brought into NewYork, and the gallant Decatur, who,when lieutenant, had so signally dis-tinguished himself at Tripoli, was wel-comed with the applause and honorswhich he had so nobly won. Foitrth. On the 29th of Decemberthe Constitution, familiarly called bythe sailors Old Ironsides, then in com-mand of Commodore Bainbridge, hadanother encounter at sea. This was M
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