. The history of our Navy from its origin to the present day, 1775-1897. 340 THE HISTORY OF OUR NAVY ron for open-sea fighting, the Americans werenot armed for battering down a city so wellfortified as Tripoli, and the Bashaw refused tomake a treaty. A weary blockade of the portfollowed. There were conflicts of small mo-ment with gunboats that tried to steal away tosea, and even the land forces were bombardedat times. A party under Porter once landedand fired some gunboats that Jiad been hauled

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