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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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ed up like a bill-posters fence, theshot from both ships in most cases weresent high up in the rigging. Even ourmen, who were found better trained thanthe British, shot away the Boxers main-topmast and her f oretopsail - yard, al-though it is obvious that they should haveopened her planks at the water-line in-stead. Nevertheless our shots were more effec-tive than those of the Boxer, and at fouroclock the senior officer of the Britishship came to the rail and shouted thathe had surrendered, but could not hauldown the flags because they were nailedaloft. At that one of his juniors jumpedon the rail, shook his fists at the Enter-prise, yelled no three times, and call-ed her crew a number of vile names;but his pluck was of course unavailing.They brought the sword of the Britishcommander to the dying Burrows. Tak-ing it in his hand, he said: I am satisfied. I die contented. The Boxer w7as shot to pieces so badlythat though carried into port she wasfound unfit for further use. She had been
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Half tone plate engraved by G. M. Lewis FIGHT BETWEEN THE ENTERPRISE AND THE BARBARY CORSAIR TRIPOLI (August i, 18011 936 HAKPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. hit in the hull by eighteen round shot, most of them at the waters edge. Thehull of the Enterprise had been hit byone round shot. On April 25, 1814, a British frigatecame in pursuit of the ill-rigged, top-heavy Enterprise. Even our fleetschooners were often captured by theBritish frigates of that day, but Lieu-tenant James Kenshaw, who then com-manded the Enterprise, by a display ofseamanship that cannot be appreciatedin these days, kept his ship out of thefrigates range for two days, then thewind failed absolutely, and getting outhis boats, Kenshaw towed his vessel outof sight of the enemy. In 1815 we were again in troublewith the Barbary pirates, and the En-terprise was sent along with the finestsquadron we had ever dreamed of own-ing in those days to overawe the Af-ricans. And overawe them we did, sothat from those days to these we have

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