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The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Averill's Raid — Attack at Dublin Depot. (search)
ve them back upon the coast of France for shelter. In 1755 an English fleet of several ships of the line and some frigates were sent to intercept a French fleet of twenty-five ships of the line and many smaller vessels, which had sailed from Brest for America. The fleets passed each other in a thick fog. All but two of the French vessels reached Quebec, and nine of them soon afterwards returned to France. In 1759 a British force, under Commander Boy, blockaded a French fleet in the pe. Three fleets were put on guard: one, the Channel fleet, under Lord Bridport, consisting of thirty sail of the line, was stationed close on the British shores; a second, under Curtis, in the Downs; a third, under Colpays, watched the harbor of Brest. Yet the French fleet of forty-four vessels, carrying a land force of twenty- five thousand men, actually passed unobserved these three lines of coast guard, though it occupied eight days in making the passage and three more in landing the troop
The Daily Dispatch: May 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], Inducements to naval enterprise. (search)
e them back upon the coast of France for shelter. In 1755 an English fleet of several ships of the line and some frigates were sent to intercepts a French fleet of twenty-five ships of the line and many smaller vessels, which had sailed from Brest for America. The fleets passed each other in a thick fog. All but two of the French vessels reached Quebec, and nine of them soon afterwards returned to France. In 1759 a British force, under Commander Boy, blockaded a French fleet in the pe. Three fleets were put on guard: one, the Channel fleet, under Lord Bridport, consisting of thirty sail of the line, was stationed close on the British shores; a second, under Curtis, in the Downs; a third, under Colpays, watched the harbor of Brest. Yet the French fleet of forty-four vessels, carrying a land force of twenty- five thousand men, actually passed unobserved these three lines of coast guard, though it occupied eight days in making the passage and three more in landing the troop
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Florida. (search)
ements of our little navy on the ocean: The Florida, three weeks ago, touched at the island of Bermuda, to land Lieut Averett, her executive officer, who was severely lit. Second Lt. Lingard Hoole was left at Martinique, for the same cause. Just one year ago, the Florida, while at Bermuda, was received with a royal salute of twenty one guns, her officers in the evening being entertained at the house of the Colonel commanding the forces on the Island. The only ship burned since leaving Brest is the Avon, 2,000 tons, bound to Cork from the Chincha Islands, leaded with guano. The discipline on board is like that of a man-of-war. Her complement is 120 men and 18 officers. All live well, clothe well, and feed well. Oysters, turkeys, and delicacies of every description, captured on the prizes, supply their larder, and these are served in the commonest messes of the ship, with silver knives and forks. Think of that, ye hungry landsmen! Capt Moffitt, the former commander of t
The Daily Dispatch: November 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
advantages of their position in a military point of view, moving constantly on interior lines. They argue that volunteering is entirely at an end in the North, and that the conscription cannot be enforced here while the rebel army is kept up to a fighting standard by steady recruiting, and has a reserve always on hand of three hundred thousand negroes capable of efficient military service. Surgeon Charlton estimates that the Florida has steamed over forty thousand miles since she left Brest, not having spent ten days in port in nine months.--During her career she has captured about forty American vessels. Speech from Lincoln — the election news in Washington. The Abolition clubs of Washington went to Lincoln's White House on Thursday evening, and, after firing off a cannon, proceeded to hurrah, etc., until the Gorilla came out and made the following speech: It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of the people can
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
he ratio of distribution among the officers of American vessels of such goods and chattels of the enemy as they should be able to appropriate. We find this man Jones, in one of his first letters to the American Commissioners at Paris, relating, with the most unblushing effrontery, how, on his last cruise, he took a brigantine, bound from Ostend with a cargo of flaxseed for Ireland, and sunk her; took also the ship Lord Chatham, loaded with porter and merchandise, which he manned and sent to Brest; met a Scotch coasting schooner, loaded with barley, which he says he "could not avoid sinking; made sail after ten or twelve merchant ships, which he "thought an enterprise worthy attention"; and made an expedition to Whitchaven, on his native coast of Scotland, where he kindled a fire in the steerage of a large ship, surrounded by between three and four hundred others, whereof he coolly says: "I should have kindled fires in other places if the time had permitted. As it did not, our care w
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