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286k | USS Essex, CAPT. Porter, engages HMS Alert,
CAPT. T.L.P. Laungharne, in a brief engagement in the Atlantic, 13 August 1812.
US Naval History and Heritage Command NH 55432 |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
235k | USS Essex, captures HMS Alert after a brief
engagement in the Atlantic, 13 August 1812.
US Naval History and Heritage Command NH 55433 |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
277k | USS Essex capturing HMS Alert, 13 August 1812. From "Our Country in War" by Murat Halstead (1898). | Robert Hurst | ||
28k | <"The [U.S.S.] ESSEX [commanded by David Porter] capturing the British ship ALERT"
Illus. in: Memoir of ... David Porter, 1875, opp. p. 94 |
Tommy Trampp |
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