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Subject: GENERAL ARMSTRONG (SHIP)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ON THE LOSS OF THE PRIVATEER BRIGANTINE GENERAL ARMSTRONG, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The armstrong arrived in the port of fayal
Last Line: May it ever be ready, the britons to maul, %as the armstrong behaved in the road of fayal
Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; Reid, Samuel Chester (1783-1861); War Of 1812


REID AT FAYAL, by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cliff-locked port and a bluff sea wall
Last Line: In tale and song.
Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Reid, Samuel Chester (1783-1861); War Of 1812; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE ARMSTRONG AT FAYAL, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the sun sets red, the moon shines white
Last Line: Of the yankee privateer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; War Of 1812; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy


THE FIGHT OF THE ARMSTRONG PRIVATEER, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell the story to your sons
Last Line: In the harbor of fayal the azore!
Subject(s): Azores; Courage; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; United States; War Of 1812; Valor; Bravery; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy; America


THE GENERAL ARMSTRONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "come, all you sons of liberty, that to the seas belong"
Last Line: Then haul'd our wind and stood again for freedom's happy shore
Subject(s): General Armstrong (ship);navy - United States;war Of 1812; American Navy