Capture Of The Alert

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AT SEA, August 17, 1812.

SIR,

"I have the honour to inform you that upon the 13th, his Britannic majesty's sloop of war Alert, Captain T. L. P. Langhorne, ran down on our weather quarter, gave three cheers and commenced an action...".

D. PORTER. [See David Porter's portrait below]

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