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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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HE remaining work of the British blockading squadrons alongthe Atlantic Coast demands some attention, and some accountmust be given of certain land actions which were inseparablyconnected with the course of naval events. This narrative canwell be divided into two parts, each dealing with the operations of onesection of the blockading fleet; thus tracing the course of events up tothe close of the war on the New England coast, before taking up theproceedings on the Chesapeake station. It will be remembered that Decatur had been checked in his attemptto break the blockade at the eastern end of Long Island Sound, and wasforced to take the frigates United States and Macedonian, and thesloop-of-war Hornet, into New London Harbor. Early in December,1813, he determined to try to slip out; and choosing a dark night, whenwind and tide were in his favor, he dropped down the bay, and was about480
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LIEUT. RICHMOND PEARSON HOBSON, WHO SANK THE MERRIMACIN SANTIAGO HARBOR, JUNE 3, 1898 BLUE-JACKETS OF 1812. to put to sea, when bright blue lights blazed up on either side of th<harbors mouth, and the plan was exposed by the treachery of somenever detected. After this failure, the two frigates returned up thewhere they remained until the end of the war. The Hornet mato get to sea, and did goo ! service before peace was declared. In April, 1814, the British blockaders on the New England cbegan active operations by sending an expedition up the ConnecticutRiver to Pautopaug Point, where the invaders landed, spiked the gui -of a small battel y, and destroyed twenty-two vessels. Thence they preceeded down the river, burning a few more craft on the way, and escapedsafely to their ships ; although a party of militia, and sailors and marinesfrom Decaturs vessels, attempted to cut them off. Shortly after thisoccurrence, a fleet of American gunboats attacked the blockading squadronof

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