The History of Our Navy From Its Origin to the Present Day, 1775-1897

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The History of Our Navy From Its Origin to the Present Day, 1775-1897
Spears, John Randolph, 1850-1936
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Captain Lawrence was highly respected for his humanity to the crew of the Peacock, and marks of real grief were seen in the countenances of all the inhabitants, I had a chance to see." So wrote a British officer.
The body of Lawrence lay on the quarter- deck of the Chesapeake, wrapped in an Amer- ican flag. It was placed in a coffin and taken ashore ** in a twenty-oared barge, to minute strokes, followed by a procession of boats at respectful distances. It was met by a regi- ment of British tro
...ops and a band that played the * Dead March in Saul.' " The sword of the American was placed on his coffin, which was then carried away by six of the oldest naval officers in the port. The long procession that followed included many of the wounded of both ships.
Six weeks later George Crowninshield, jr., a privateersman, and ten other ship-masters, Digitized by Google 5 ^ 5 ^ ■ Digitized by Google Digitized by Google THE HISTORY OF OUR NAVY 225 went to Halifax in the brig Henry under a flag of truce, and brought home the bodies of Captain Lawrence and Lieutenant Ludlow, and they were interred in Trinity cemetery, in lower Broadway, New York.


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