CHAPTER XI

. THE YEAR 1779 IN AMERICAN WATERS 280

Lucky Raids of British Transports and Merchantmen--Disastrous Expedition to the Penobscot--The _Trumbull’s_ Good Fight with the _Watt_--The First Yankee Line-of-battle-ship--When Nicholson, with a Wrecked Ship and Fifty Men, Fought for an Hour against Two Frigates, each of which was Superior to the Yankee Ship--Captain Barry’s Exasperating Predicament in a Calm--The Last Naval Battle of the Revolution.

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