Harper's new monthly magazine . to send aminister to the United States. The old orderof things on the Southern coast of the Mediter-ranean Sea was now much reversed. This re-sult had been brought about wholly by the oper-ations of the gallant little navy of the UnitedStates.* At about this time the distinguished JRobertFulton proposed to introduce a new element into * Officers of the navy erected a monument in the Navy-yard at Washington in commemoration of their brotherofficers who fell in the war with Tripoli. It was mutilatedby the British when they burned Washington City in1814. It was aft
Harper's new monthly magazine . to send aminister to the United States. The old orderof things on the Southern coast of the Mediter-ranean Sea was now much reversed. This re-sult had been brought about wholly by the oper-ations of the gallant little navy of the UnitedStates.* At about this time the distinguished JRobertFulton proposed to introduce a new element into * Officers of the navy erected a monument in the Navy-yard at Washington in commemoration of their brotherofficers who fell in the war with Tripoli. It was mutilatedby the British when they burned Washington City in1814. It was afterward removed to the west front of theCapitol, but has been taken away, and set up at Annapo-lis. It is of white marble, about forty feet in height. Onthe column are bows of vessels. At the base are four mar-ble emblematical figures—Mercury, Fame, History, andAmerica. The column is surmounted by an eagle. Onone side of the base, in relief, is Tripoli; on the others thenames of the officers. 166 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY NAVAL MONUMENT AT ANNAPOLIS the system of naval warfare. It was thatfloating mines, which he called torpedoes,tended to destroy ships of largest dimensionsexploding them under their bottoms. Heoffered the infernal machine to the Brit-ish Government, and exhibited successfulexperiments before members of the Boardof Admiralty; but the Government de-clined it. He came home and offered theinvention to the United States Govern-ment. He exhibited successful experi-ments in the harbor of New York, whenquite a large vessel was broken up anddestroyed by one of his torpedoes. OurGovernment also refused to use the de-structive machine; but when the war brokeout in 1812 they were tried on private ac-count. The British vessels greatly feared _^them; and it is believed that the dread jof Eultons presence, with his torpedoes,prevented them entering many of our har-bors and destroying the towns during thewar. Eultons grand idea was confessed-ly the philanthropic one of
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