Identifier: worldsstoryhisto13tapp (find matches)
Title: The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930 Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881 Tillinghast, William Hopkins, 1819-1881 Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ry had provided a flotilla,consisting of the ships Lawrence and Niagara, of twentyguns each, and seven smaller vessels, to wit, one of four guns,one of three, two of two, and three of one. While the ships were building, the enemy frequently ap-peared off the harbor and threatened their destruction; butthe shallowness of the water on the bar, there being but fivefeet, prevented their approach. The same cause, which in-sured the safety of the vessels while building, seemed likelyto prevent their being of any service when completed. Thetwo largest drew several feet more water than there wason the bar. The inventive genius of Perry, however, sur-mounted this difficulty. He placed large scows on each sideof these two, filled them so that they sank to the water-edge,then attached them to the ships by strong pieces of timber,and pumped out the water. The scows, in this way, buoyedup the ships, enabling them to pass the bar in safety. Thisoperation was performed in the very eyes of the enemy.
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HOW PERRY SAVED THE NORTHWEST Lawrence, this hot fire from a fresh ship was annihilat-ing. The Detroit and the Queen Charlotte tried toswing around and meet him, but fouled each other,while Perry, ranging ahead, rounded to and raked themboth. The other American vessels were joining in as theycame within range, and Barclay stood aghast at theslaughter and destruction hurled on his hitherto seem-ingly victorious ships. The crew of the Lady Prevostfled from the deck, leaving their commander, LieutenantBuchan, alone on the quarter-deck with bleeding limbsand staring eyes. The tempest of shot and the torrent ofdestruction were more than even British valor couldstand, and eight minutes after Perrys signal dash intotheir line a man came to the rail of the British flagship,waving a white handkerchief tied to a boarding-pike.It was the signal of surrender. Perry was victor in oneof the greatest battles of the war. Two of the British vessels sought to escape, theChippewa and the Little Belt, bu

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