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Fun EN, an ifland of Denmark, 34a miles in circumference j leparated from Jutland by a ftrait, called the Little Belt, and from Zealand by the Great Belt.
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The Little Belt appears to have fired the first shot.
The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country Henry Mann
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I spoke of the action between the President and the Little Belt, where one broadside, fired through mistake by the American frigate, transformed the proud and defiant sloop-of-war into a sinking wreck.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper
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This carries it across the smiling waters of the Little Belt.
Denmark M. Pearson Thomson
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Opposed to this fleet Canada had on Lake Erie a squadron consisting of six vessels -- _Queen Charlotte_, seventeen guns; _Lady Prevost_, thirteen guns; _Hunter_, ten guns; _Little Belt_, three guns;
Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada Ethel T. Raymond
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The President and the Little Belt. \% -- In the early part of May,
A School History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892
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The _Chippeway_ and _Little Belt_ tried to escape, but were overtaken and brought to respectively by the _Trippe_ and _Scorpion_, the commander of the latter, Mr. Stephen Champlin, firing the last, as he had the first, shot of the battle.
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Regarding the affair purely as a conflict between vessels of nations at war with each other, the criticism made by Lord Howard Douglass on the action between the _President_ and _Little Belt_ applies here perfectly.
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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_Little Belt_, and _Lady Prevost_, and the starboard ones into the
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Fuenen, across the Little Belt -- three miles of ice, and a part of the sea
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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