Identifier: harpersnewmonthl00alde (find matches)
Title: Harper's new monthly magazine
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919 Harper & Brothers John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Subjects: Culture Civilization American literature
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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, and the vessel was thereaftermanaged, in gallant style, by the second lieu-tenant, William H. Allen. In less than half anhour the Argus was so much damaged that shebecame unmanageable. At about seven oclockthe enemy boarded her, and at the same mo-ment her colors were struck. The action lastedonly about half an hour. Captain Allen diedin the hospital of Mill prison, England. The little American brig Enterprise, Lieuten-ant Burrows, famous as the capturer of the Trip-oli in the Mediterranean, now gained other andmore brilliant honors. On the 5th of Septem- * W. H. Allen -was born at Providence, Rhode Island,in October, 1784, and entered the navy in the year 1800.His first cruise was in the Washington, under Bainbridge.He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1805, and was with Bar-ron in the Chesapeake, in 1807. The only gun fired on thatoccasion he touched off with a coal in his fingers. He wasDecaturs first lieutenant at the capture of the Macedonian. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. 175
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PUT-IN-BAY. ber, 1813, she encountered the British cruiserBoxer (a brig mounting fourteen guns), off thecoast of Maine, not far from Portland. Theyengaged in a severe contest at about half pastthree oclock in the afternoon, at half pistol-shotdistance. The action lasted about forty minutes,when the Boxer surrendered. Her colors werenailed to her mast, and could not be struck.Her officer in charge surrendered by asking acessation of cannonading. Both vessels losttheir commanders. Lieutenant Burrows wasmortally wounded by a canister shot, and Cap-tain Blyth of the Boxer was killed by a cannon-ball from the first broadside fired by the Enter-prise. Lieutenant MCall, who assumed thecommand of the Enter-prise, had both vesselstaken into the harbor of Portland. There thetwo commanders were buried side by side, withthe honors of war. Congress voted a goldmedal to both Burrows and MCall. The lateMathew L. Davis, of New York, in after-years,erected a monument over the grave of Burrows,by the s

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