Identifier: aaroninwildwoods00harr (find matches)
Title: Aaron in the wildwoods
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908
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Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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for a general chase, and for upwards of twohours the English merchantmen hotly pursued theFrench squadron. The Commodore then thoughtit was time to recall his ships and to continuehis voyage to England, where he arrived withoutfurther interruption, and was rewarded with aknighthood. John was discharged from the Earl Camden on7th August 1804, the day after her arrival in Englishwaters. On 8th August he was appointed to H.M.S.Bellerophon, under Captain Loring ; and he joined heron 20th September, after a brief six weeks leavespent with his family and friends. His new ship—the Billy Ruffian, as the sailors ADVENTURES OF JOHN FRANKLIN 151 called her—was a famous one. No one could forgethow she fought at the Nile, where she stood up to theFrench Admirals flagship, LOrient, of 100 guns, andtook more punishment than any seventy-four in allNelsons battles. She lost there forty-nine officersand men killed and 148 wounded, out of a companyof only 541; and at last she was compelled to drift
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She was compelled to drift out of action out of action with all her masts gone. But she re-fused to strike; and though she was beaten she haddone her work, for she left her huge enemy on firein two places, and saw her blow up before midnight.Her own losses were almost entirely due to onedisastrous accident: she was in the act of placingherself on the starboard bow of LOrientf in order to 152 THE BOOK OF THE BLUE SEA rake her, when her anchor dragged and she drifteduntil she was close alongside the Frenchman, whocarried double her weight of metal and got twobroadsides into her before she could open fire. AtTrafalgar she had almost as hard luck, as you willsee, but she came out of it better. Johns first winter in the Billy Ruffian was spentin the blockade of Brest. Then in April 1805 theship was taken over by Captain James Cooke, whomJohn describes as very gentlemanly and active;and under him she joined Lord Colling wood offCadiz. When Nelson came out in September shehoisted the white e

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