The number of Americans actually engaged did not exceed that of the British; and Scott's brigade, in fair fight, closed by a bayonet charge, defeated an equal force of British regulars.
Courtesy Peabody Museum of Salem)] The two vessels were practically of equal force.
The cardinal had no equal force to oppose to him; but as he was a prudent man, he foresaw that Lenox could not long subsist so great an army, and he endeavored to gain time by opening a negotiation with him.
A repeal also passed of that law, the destruction of all laws, by which the king's proclamation was made of equal force with a statute.
We participated in the vexation and regret, and it is the first time we ever heard that the striking of the flag on the high seas to any thing like an equal force, should be regarded by Englishmen with complacency or satisfaction.
But the American flag will never be dishonored, seldom if ever struck to equal force.
For it is observable that an opposition of passions commonly causes a new emotion in the spirits, and produces more disorder, than the concurrence of any two affections of equal force.
As Marryat remarks, a British private vessel of that day feared a British ship of war more than it did an enemy of equal force.
It was therefore open to Chauncey to blockade Kingston with an equal force, thus covering Sackett's, and to despatch to the head of the lake vessels adequate to embarrass Riall and Drummond most seriously.
An equal force must be put in requisition and kept in readiness to relieve that on the station.
The Ganges patrolled the seas, and caught several French privateers which made a good resistance, but never got alongside a vessel of equal force.
Your men are brave, but not experienced; and when they meet a British ship of equal force, with the best intentions to do their duty, they will not know how to fight.
It was not the good fortune of the United States to meet a frigate of equal force, so that her men and their mettle could be tried, but she did good service in clearing out the French privateers which infested those seas.
An unfortunate meeting between the Ambuscade and La Bayonnaire, of equal force, closed the transactions of 1798.
It was reserved for Lord Bridport to convince the enemy of the decisive weight of an equal force.
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