None obey’d the command to kneel, Some produced angry and helpless rush, some stood stark and right,
Several dropped at once, shot in the temple or heart, the living and dead lay together, The maim’d and mangled dug within the dust, the new-comers saw them here, Some half-kill’d attempted to crawl away, they were despatch’d with bayonets or batter’d with all the blunts of muskets, A youth perhaps perhaps not seventeen years old seiz’d his assassin till two more arrived to discharge him, the 3 had been all torn and cover’d with all the kid’s bloodstream.
At eleven o’clock started the burning of this systems; that’s the story associated with murder associated with the four hundred and twelve teenage boys.
Can you hear of an sea-fight that is old-time? Could you discover whom won by the light associated with moon and movie movie stars? List towards the yarn, as my grandmother’s dad it was told by the sailor to me personally.
Our foe ended up being no sulk in their ship we let you know, (stated he, ) His was the surly English pluck, and there’s no tougher or truer, rather than had been, and not will likely to be; Along the lower’d eve he arrived horribly raking us.
We shut with him, the yards entangled, the cannon touch’d, My captain lash’d fast along with his very very own hands.
We had receiv’d some eighteen lb shots underneath the water, On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst in the very first fire, killing all over and blowing up overhead.
Battling at sun-down, fighting at dark, Ten o’clock during the night, the moon that is full up, our leaks regarding the gain, and five foot of water reported, The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners restricted when you look at the after-hold to provide them an opportunity on their own.
The transit to and from the mag is currently stopt by the sentinels, They see numerous faces that are strange have no idea who to trust.