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Page 105
... crew killed and thirty wounded . Sterrett , having no orders to make captures , threw all the guns and ammu- nition of the Tripoli overboard , cut away remaining masts , and left her with only one spar single sail to drift back to ...
... crew killed and thirty wounded . Sterrett , having no orders to make captures , threw all the guns and ammu- nition of the Tripoli overboard , cut away remaining masts , and left her with only one spar single sail to drift back to ...
Page 106
... crew , by the Tripolitan gunboa entirely helpless either to fight of a very serious blow to our navy her was was operations against Tripoli . It not onl our forces , but it was also a great enemy . The Tripolitans got the P off the ...
... crew , by the Tripolitan gunboa entirely helpless either to fight of a very serious blow to our navy her was was operations against Tripoli . It not onl our forces , but it was also a great enemy . The Tripolitans got the P off the ...
Page 109
... crew were very much cramped as well as badly fed on the little vessel which had been given to them , but they succeeded , nevertheless , in reaching Tri- the poli in safety , accompanied by For nearly a week they were unable to ap ...
... crew were very much cramped as well as badly fed on the little vessel which had been given to them , but they succeeded , nevertheless , in reaching Tri- the poli in safety , accompanied by For nearly a week they were unable to ap ...
Page 110
... crew then to haul on the lines , and thus the Intrepi drawn gradually toward the frigate . The suspicions of the Tripolitans were no last awakened . They raised the cry of " An canos ! " and ordered off the Intrepid , bu delphia ...
... crew then to haul on the lines , and thus the Intrepi drawn gradually toward the frigate . The suspicions of the Tripolitans were no last awakened . They raised the cry of " An canos ! " and ordered off the Intrepid , bu delphia ...
Page 111
Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt. the deck , the Tripolitan crew gathered , panic- stricken , in a confused mass on the forecastle . Decatur waited a moment until his men were be- hind him , and then , placing himself at their head ...
Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt. the deck , the Tripolitan crew gathered , panic- stricken , in a confused mass on the forecastle . Decatur waited a moment until his men were be- hind him , and then , placing himself at their head ...
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