Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . rigates of forty-four gunseach, and two of thirty-six guns each, andin due time they were built, manned andequipped, and put in commission, to vindi-cate the rights and liberties of the Amer
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . rigates of forty-four gunseach, and two of thirty-six guns each, andin due time they were built, manned andequipped, and put in commission, to vindi-cate the rights and liberties of the Amer-ican flag. There was retribution in store for theBarbary States, to be dealt out to them bythe youngest and most remote in thefamily of nations ! The naval squadron intended for thispurpose consisted of the frigate President,commanded b^ Commodore Dale, thefrigate Philadelphia, commanded by Cap-tain Barron, the frigate Essex, underCaptain Bainbridge, and the schooner En-terprise, Lieutenant Commandant obedience to instructions from Commo-dore Dale, Bainbridge appeared off thecities of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli; andduring the winter and spring of 1802,cruised in different parts of the Mediterra^ nean, and convoyed the United Statesmerchant vessels issuing from variousports, out of that infested sea. After thisperiod of service. Commodore Dale wassucceeded in his command, first by Com-.
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