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One major savings was achieved in August, when a seventy-four-gun French ship, the Magnifique, struck a rock and sank in Boston harbor.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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One major savings was achieved in August, when a seventy-four-gun French ship, the Magnifique, struck a rock and sank in Boston harbor.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Two more, the seventy-four-gun America and the twenty-eight-gun Bourbon, were under construction at shipyards in New England, but work on both was stalled for lack of funds.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Two more, the seventy-four-gun America and the twenty-eight-gun Bourbon, were under construction at shipyards in New England, but work on both was stalled for lack of funds.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Meanwhile, a French seventy-four-gun ship of the line hit a rock and foundered, with a loss of 200 men.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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A squadron of Dutch warships, led by a seventy-four-gun ship of the line, sailed into the anchorage at the Texel in mid-December to intimidate Jones into leaving.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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Meanwhile, a French seventy-four-gun ship of the line hit a rock and foundered, with a loss of 200 men.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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Ranger had chanced upon a fleet of British merchantmen returning from Gibraltar under the protection of a seventy-four-gun ship of the line, Invincible.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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A squadron of Dutch warships, led by a seventy-four-gun ship of the line, sailed into the anchorage at the Texel in mid-December to intimidate Jones into leaving.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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Ranger had chanced upon a fleet of British merchantmen returning from Gibraltar under the protection of a seventy-four-gun ship of the line, Invincible.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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