New Jersey, von der Entdeckung von Scheyichbi bis zu den letzten Zeiten . le Land über den Ozean, um seiner Macht zu widerstehen. Die Tripolitaner fanden heraus, dass sie in Philadelphia einen großen Preis gewonnen hatten, dieses schöne Kriegsschiff, das als Geschenk auf dem Riff geblieben zu sein schien. Nach einer guten Arbeit schleppten sie ihren Intothen ha.Bor in die Nähe der Stadt, wo sie Herlecks reparierten, und setzten sie, um gegen ihre en-mies die Amerikaner zu verwenden, die nicht wussten, wie man Gutes andenken konnte, als sie es hatten. Als CommodorePreble monatelang kam, um den Hafen von Tripolis zu blockieren, entdeckte er t

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New Jersey, from the discovery of Scheyichbi to recent times . le country across the oceanto resist his power. The Tripolitans found that they had gained a greatprize in the Philadelphia, that fine war ship, whichseemed to have been left on the reef as a present tothem. After a good deal of work, they towed her intothe ha.bor close to the town, where they repaired herleaks, and put her in order to use against their ene-mies the Americans, who did not know how to keepa good thing when they had it. When CommodorePreble came, si. months afterwards, to blockade theport of Tripoli, he discovered that the Philadelphiawas nearly ready for sea; and, to prevent the disasterof having a United States ship with United Statescannon bear down upon them, he determined to de-stroy the Philadelphia, if possible, and an excellentplan for the purj^ose was devised. A small vesselcalled the Intrepid, which had been captured sometime previously, was manned witii a cicw of overeighty men, commanded by Lieutenant Decatur, who, years after, finished the Algerine war. 224. This brave little ves-sel sailed into the harboras if she had been anordinary merchantman, and managed to driftdown close to the finefrigate which the Tri-)()litans had snatchedfrom their blunderingenemy. The crew onboard the Philadel-phia did not suspectthe character of the lit-tle vessel which cameso close to them, untilshe was made fast, andiiu)rc than eighty men)rang up from thelaces where they hadKcn lying concealedon deck, andswarmed oxx-rthe side of thetrigate. A m o n gthese was a-oung sailor, I. a w r e n c e, from Burling-ton, N.J., whohad be;run life 225 early, having been a midshipman when he was onlysixteen years old. When Commodore Preble askedfor volunteers to go on this expedition to snatch fromthe hands of the pirates the prize which theythought they had won, Lawrence was one of the firstvolunteers, and acted as second in command of thisexpedition. The fight was not long. Many of the turbancd crewjumped over

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1890
• bookpublishernewyo
• bookyear1896