An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . truck. His loss was twenty killed and thirty wounded ; Sterret didnot lose a man. On the 21st of August, P:ile captured a Greekship bound for Tripoli, laden with merchandise, and having onboard one Tripolitan officer, twenty-four soldiers, fourteen merchants,and five women. An exchange of prsoners was effected with thebashaw, after which the commodore abandoned the blockade andsai
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . truck. His loss was twenty killed and thirty wounded ; Sterret didnot lose a man. On the 21st of August, P:ile captured a Greekship bound for Tripoli, laden with merchandise, and having onboard one Tripolitan officer, twenty-four soldiers, fourteen merchants,and five women. An exchange of prsoners was effected with thebashaw, after which the commodore abandoned the blockade andsailed for Tripoli. N February, 1802, Congress authorized thePresident to take immediate measures for theprotection of commerce in the Mediterranean,and for the fitting out of ships to subdue,seize, and make prize of all vessels, goods,and efl^ects belonging to the Bashaw of Tri-poli or his subjects, and to send the sameinto port. He accordingly ordered to therelief of Commodore Dale, the Enterprise, of twelve guns. CaptainSterret ; the Constellation, thirty-six, Captain Murray ; the Chesapeake. forty-four, Captain Morris ; the Adams, thirty-two, CaptaifCampbell; the New York, thirty-two. Captain Barron; and .he. WAR WITH TRIPOLI. 4d3
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