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They also seized the lake gunboats, took an entire Spanish garrison prisoner, and captured a large quantity of stores.

Then he had a fleet of twenty-five vessels in all, twenty of them being gunboats, but some of them quite large.

For many nights we have had but little sleep, because the Federal gunboats have been running past the batteries.

Soon a flock of gunboats came down the harbor and saw the bad fix the Americans were in.