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 . to be immediately sur-rounded by guards, and interrupted allintercourse between the officers and were also conducted under a strongguard to the castle, and confined in acold and dam
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 . to be immediately sur-rounded by guards, and interrupted allintercourse between the officers and were also conducted under a strongguard to the castle, and confined in acold and damp apartment, with onlyone opening at the top, which was gratedwith iron; light and air came throughthis aperture solely. TIius they wereentombed during the remainder of theircaptivity. Determined now to try the effect of abombardment, Preble brought togetlier allhis forces before Tripoli, in July, enemy having sent .some gun-boatsand galleys without the reef at the mouthof the harbor, two divisions of Americangun-boats were formed for the jjurjwse ofattacking them, while the large vesselsassailed the batteries and town. Early inAugust, the American squadron ajvproachcd within gun-shot of the town, andopened a tremendous fire of shot andshells, which was as promptly returned bythe Trijiolitan batteries and shipping. Atthe same time, the two divisions of gun- GEEAT A^B MEMORABLE EVENTS. 187. BOMBAUDMENT OF TRIPOLI. boats, the first under the command ofCaptain Richard Soniers, the second underCaptain Stephen Decatur, who had beenpromoted as a reward for his hite achieve-ment, advanced against tliose of tlieenemy. The squadron was about twohours under the enemys batteries, gener-ally within pistol-shot, ranging by them indeliberate succession, alternately silencingtheir fires, and launching its thunders intothe very palace of royalty, while a yetmore animated battle was raging in an-other quarter. What the Turks them-selves thought of these demonstrationsmay be judged from
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