id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 18941 Paine, Ralph Delahaye The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 .txt text/plain 51126 2335 69 Amherstburg, to overcome the British naval forces on Lake Erie--and all of Hull's men, and two British armed schooners lay within range. than five hundred war-worn men to hold out against British operations while the American ships were waiting for men, might readily have sent might be called two heavy ships of the line: the British, the _Detroit_ and outwitted the best of the British men-of-war on the American coast, British vessels captured in seven months by the Americans. thirty-eight-gun British frigate _Shannon_, Captain Philip Vere Broke, Indeed, the captain of the British flagship on the American _Shannon_ eighty-two men killed and wounded, while the American frigate new _Peacock_, named for the captured British brig, under Captain Lewis than the British army, ten thousand strong, under General Prevost, The raids of the British navy on the American sea-coast through the last about two thousand troops, while a war schooner shelled the British left ./cache/18941.txt ./txt/18941.txt