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Title: The naval history of the United States
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John), 1863-1934
Subjects: United States -- History, Naval To 1900
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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y shown by British seamen whenonce led to an enemy., deck. At the ringing note:- of the bugle, callingup the boarders, the British gathered aft, their faces begrimed with ;un-. their arms bare, and their keen cutlasses firmly clutched in their one: riarht hands. The Americans took the alarm at once, and crowdedforward to repel the enemy. The marines, whose hard duty it is in long-range fighting to stand with military impassiveness, drawn up in line ondeck, while the shot whistle by them, and now and then cut great gaps in BLUE-JACKETS OF 18,2. 473 their straight lines,—the marines came aft, with their muskets loaded andbayonets fixed. Before them were sailors with sharp-pointed boarding-pikes, ready to receive the enemy should he come aboard ; while close underthe bulwarks were grouped the boarders, ready with cutlass and pistol to beatback the flood of men that should come pouring over the side. The gratingof the ships sides told that the vessels were touching; and the next instant
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THE CAPTAIN OF THE REINDEER. the burly British seamen, looming up like giants, as they dashed through thedense murkiness of the powder-smoke, were among the Americans, cuttingand firing right and left. From the deck of the Reindeer the marineskept up a constant fire of musketry, to which the sea-soldiers of the Wasp responded vigorously. Marksmen posted in the tops of each vesselpicked off men from their enemys decks, choosing generally the officers. 474 BLUE-JACKETS OF 1812. Sharp and bloody though the British attack was, the boarders couldmake no way against the stubborn stand of the Americans. Capt.Manners, seeing his men beaten back, sprang forward to rally them. Hewas desperately wounded. A gun-shot had passed through his thighs, and agrape-shot had cut across the calves of his legs ; but, maimed and bleedingto death as he was, he leaped into the rigging, and, cheering and waving hissword, called to his men to follow him to the decks of the Yankee. TheBritons rallied nobly under

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