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Identifier: makersofworldshi00nort (find matches)
Title: Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: World history. (from old catalog) Biography
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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JOHN PAUL JONES. 109 with difficulty. The Richard continued to stand steadily on, and atabout half-past seven she came up with the Serapis, the Scarboroughbeing a short distance to leeward. The American ship was to wind-ward, and, as she slowly approached, Captain Pearson hailed. Theanswer returned was purposely equivocal, and both ships deliveredtheir broadsides at almost the same moment. MANY KILLED BY BURSTING GUNS. As the water was quite smooth, Jones had relied very much upon theeighteen-pouuders which were in the Richards gun-room ; but at thisfirst discharge two of the six that were fired burst, blowing up the deckabove and killing or wounding many of the people stationed below. Thisdisaster rendered it impossible to make the men stand at the other heavyguns, as they could have no confidence in them. It at once reduced thebroadside of the Richard to about one-third less than that of her opponentand the force which remained was distributed among the light guns in adisadvantageou

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