On the following day the freebooters made still less progress; want of food had totally exhausted them, and they were frequently obliged to
Louis XIVs Reign’s Chief Interest
The government of France had become a machine depending upon the action of a single spring.Continuing Louis XIV Establishes Absolute Monarchy in
Aftermath of the Battle of Flambough Head
The guns of the Serapis remained serviceable during the whole action, and their effect on the decayed sides of the Richard was literally to tear her
March on Panama City
At length, on January 18th, he commenced his march toward Panama, with a chosen body of freebooters, who were thirteen hundred strong.Continuing
Manning the ‘Serapis’ and the ‘Bon Homme Richard’
"A little after ten," says Jones in his report, "I saw, with inexpressible grief, the last glimpse of the Bonhomme Richard."Continuing “I Have Not
American Ship Sinking; British Ship Burning
While the fire was raging in so terrifying a manner, the water was entering the ship in many places. The rudder had been cut entirely through, the
‘Serapis’ Boarded
"Captain Pearson now called away his boarders and sent them on board the Richard, but, when they had reached her rail, they were met by Jones himself,
Assault on Fort Saint Laurent
From that moment they determined to carry the fort or die to a man upon the spot.Continuing Buccaneers Sack Panama,our selection from History of
John Paul Jones Has Only Three Guns Left
"While the fire of the Serapis was continued without intermission from the whole of her lower-deck battery, the only guns that were still fired from