 | John Henry Sherburne - 1825 - 374 str.
...fell upon this powder and produced a most awful explosion. The effect was tremendous ; more than 20 of the enemy were blown to pieces, and many stood with only the collars of their shirts upon their bodies. In less than an hour afterward, the flag of England, which had been nailed to the mast of the... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - 1825 - 400 str.
...fell upon this powder and produced a most awful explosion. The effect was tremendous ; more than 20 of the enemy were blown to pieces, and many stood with only the collars of their shirts upon their bodies. In less than an hour afterward, the flag of England, which had been nailed to the mast of the... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1830 - 362 str.
...the Serapis, fell upon this powder, and produced a most awful explosion. The effect was tremendous ; more than twenty of the enemy were blown to pieces,...stood with only the collars of their shirts upon their bodies. In less than an hour afterwards the flag of England, which had been nailed to the mast of the... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1830 - 572 str.
...the Serapis, fell upon this powder, and produced a most awful explosion. The effect was tremendous ; more than twenty of the enemy were blown to pieces,...stood with only the collars of their shirts upon their bodies. In less than an hour afterwards, the flag of England, which had been nailed to the mast of... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - 1851 - 422 str.
...the Serapis, fell upon this powder, and produced a most awful explosion. The effect was tremendous ; more than twenty of the enemy were blown to pieces,...stood with only the collars of their shirts upon their bodies. In less than an hour afterward, the flag of England, which had been nailed to the mast of the... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1855 - 560 str.
...the Serapis, fell upon this powder, and produced a most awful explosion. The effect was tremendous ; more than twenty of the enemy were blown to pieces,...stood with only the collars of their shirts upon their bodies. In less than an hour afterwards, the flag of England, which had been nailed to the mast of... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - 1880 - 474 str.
...which had been emptied from broken cartridges, and produced an explosion which was described as awful. More than twenty of the enemy were blown to pieces,...stood with only the collars of their shirts upon their bodies. In less than an hour afterwards, the surrender of the "Serapis" took place. Captain Pearson... | |
 | Edgar Stanton Maclay - 1893 - 714 str.
...the way aft, blew up the whole of the people and officers that were quartered abaft the mainmast." 1 "More than twenty of the enemy were blown to pieces,...stood with only the collars of their shirts upon their bodies." 2 The British commander, a week after the action, reported that thirty-eight were killed or... | |
 | Edgar Stanton Maclay - 1901 - 762 str.
...that the enemy's upper decks were deserted, an American seaman climbed out on the Bonhomme Richard's main yard with a bucket filled with combustibles and...decided, but to the consternation of all she fired a full broadside into the Bonhomme Richard's stern. Captain Jones in his official report says : "I... | |
 | Gardner Weld Allen - 1913 - 444 str.
...from one to another, and " made a dreadful explosion." 1 " The effect," says Dale, " was tremendous ; more than twenty of the enemy were blown to pieces,...stood with only the collars of their shirts upon their bodies." 2 This disaster doubtless hastened the end of the battle. In his report of October 6, 1779,... | |
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The effect was tremendous; more than twenty of the enemy were blown to pieces, and many stood with only the collars of their shirts upon their bodies. 
