A Fair Estimate of the Number of Americans Enslaved by the Press-Gangs--A Braggart British Captain’s Work at Sandy Hook--A Search for the _Guerrière_--Attack on the British Ship _Little Belt_--A Feature of the Battle that was Overlooked--When the _Constitution_ Showed her Teeth the British Ship Brailed its Spanker and Headed for Safer Waters--An Eager Yankee Sailor who Couldn’t Wait for an Order to Fire--War Unavoidable. The Silly Cry of “On to Canada!”--The Naval Forces of the United States Compared with Those of Great Britain--The Foresight and Quick Work of Captain Rodgers in Getting a Squadron to Sea--But he Missed the Jamaica Fleet he was After, and when he Fell in with a British Friga…
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