Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . Lieutenant LIull receiveda more fortunate order than that. Justbefore daylight he saw one of the en-emys ships actually standing out. Shetowered in the air like a frigate, butHull, with a valor that has been growingin our navy ever since that day, clearedthe Enterprise for action, signalled forhelp, and went in chase. At that theenemy up helm, and running into a deepand narrow bay, anchored with a springon the cable, broadside to the sea, cor-nered like a huge bull by a bench-legged fyce. The ship so corneredmounted twenty-tw
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . Lieutenant LIull receiveda more fortunate order than that. Justbefore daylight he saw one of the en-emys ships actually standing out. Shetowered in the air like a frigate, butHull, with a valor that has been growingin our navy ever since that day, clearedthe Enterprise for action, signalled forhelp, and went in chase. At that theenemy up helm, and running into a deepand narrow bay, anchored with a springon the cable, broadside to the sea, cor-nered like a huge bull by a bench-legged fyce. The ship so corneredmounted twenty-two guns, and was thelargest cruiser belonging to Triopli. After daylight the John Adams came,and just before nine oclock she and theEnterprise attacked the Tripolitan, withthe result that at the end of forty-fiveminutes her magazine exploded, burstthe hull to pieces, and forced the mainand mizzen masts 150 feet perpendicu-larly into the air, with all the yards,shrouds, stays, etc., belonging to them. Here, then, was Lieutenant Isaac Hull -?»?- - - - — --- ^. Half-tone plate engraved by F. A. Pettit FIGHT BETWEEN THE ENTERPRISE AND THE FRENCH BRIG FLAMBEAU (Summer of 1800) Vol CIV.—No. 624 -106 Stephen Decatur, Jr. beginning the career that was to placehim on the qnarter-deck of Old Iron-sides at the opening of the war of 1812,and give him renown as the conquerorof the Guerriere, the first British frigateto lower her flag to an American war-ship. Then came Lieutenant Stephen De-catur, Jr., to command the had gone out to the Mediterraneanas executive officer of the Essex, and wasnow to have his chance for fame alongwith the others. And like the majorityof our officers to-day, one chance was allhe needed. The frigate Philadelphia, by a mis-chance that could not have been foreseenor avoided, grounded in the harbor ofTripoli, and with all her complementwas captured. In a letter written withlemon juice, and dated December 5, 1803, Captain Bainbridge, who had been ca
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