The Library of American Biography, Volume 11C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1846 - United States |
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action Admiral Algerine Algiers American arrived attack Barbary Bashaw batteries blockade boats brave brig British broadside Captain capture character Chesapeake coast command commenced Commodore Bainbridge Commodore Barron Commodore Decatur Commodore Preble Commodore Rodgers conduct Congress Consul cruise cruisers Deca deck defence duty effect Endymion enemy enemy's engaged England Enterprise expressed favorable feel fire flag force friends frigate gallant Guerriere gunboats guns Hampton Roads harbor honor hope Intrepid Jacob Jones James Barron letter Lieutenant Macedonian Malta mand Mashouda masts Mediterranean ment Midshipman miles modore nation naval navy Norfolk o'clock occasion officers and crew opinion patriotism peace Philadelphia port present President prize quarter received rendered replied rigging sailed seamen sent ship shore shot soon squadron station STEPHEN DECATUR Syracuse tion treaty Tripoli Tripolitan Tunis United vessels war with Tripoli Washington whilst WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE wind wounded York
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Page 293 - Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Page 181 - ... in testimony of the high sense, entertained by congress, of the gallantry and good conduct of the officers and crew, in the...
Page 368 - Where all met my fullest expectations, it would be unjust in me to discriminate. Permit me, however, to recommend to your particular notice my first lieutenant, William H. Allen. He has served with me upwards of five years, and to his unremitted exertions in disciplining the crew, is to be imputed the obvious superiority of our gunnery exhibited in the result of this contest. Subjoined is a list of the killed and wounded on both sides. Our loss, compared with that of the enemy, will appear small.
Page 366 - ... reasons he determined to adventure into the harbour alone, which he did about eight o'clock. An idea may be formed of the extreme hazard of this enterprise from the situation of the frigate. She was moored within half gun shot of the Bashaw's castle, and of the principal battery. Two of the enemy's cruisers lay within two cables' length, on the starboard quarter, and their gunboats within half gun-shot on the starboard bow.
Page 204 - ... son, would induce an immediate order for his discharge. The reply is enclosed. The son descried his father at a distance in the boat, and told the first lieutenant of the Statira that it was his father...
Page 401 - Whatever I may have thought or said, in the very frequent and free conversations I have had respecting you and your conduct, I feel a thorough conviction that I never could have been guilty of so much egotism as to say that ' I could insult you ' (or any other man)
Page 64 - It is my order that you proceed to Tripoli, in company with the Siren, Lieutenant Stewart, enter that harbor in the night, board the Philadelphia, burn her, and make good your retreat with the Intrepid...
Page 368 - W., we fell in with, and, after an action of an hour and a half, captured his Britannic Majesty's ship Macedonian, commanded by Captain John Garden, and mounting forty-nine carriage guns, the odd gun shifting. She is a frigate of the largest class, two years old, four months out of dock, and reputed one of the best sailers in the British service.
Page 372 - I determined to alter my course to south, for the purpose of bringing the enemy abeam ; and, although their ships astern were drawing up fast, I felt satisfied I should be enabled to throw him out of the combat before they could come up, and was not without hopes, if the night proved dark, of which there was every appearance, that I might still be enabled to effect my escape. Our opponent kept off at the same instant we did, and our fire commenced at the same time.
Page 212 - My lads, that ship is coming up with us. As our ship won't sail, we'll go on board of theirs, every man and boy of us, and carry her into New York.