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Common terms and phrasesAlgerine Algiers April Arabs arrived attack August Barbary powers batteries bey of Tunis blockade boats Boston brig Captain Bainbridge captives captured Cathcart Chauncey Chron command Commodore Commodore Preble Congress Constellation Constitution consul convoy corsairs crew cruise cruisers Decatur demanded Derne dey's Eaton Edward Preble emperor enemy enemy's Enterprise Essex favor fire flag flagship force French consul frigate Gibraltar gunboats guns Hamet Hamet Karamanli harbor hundred Intell Intrepid James James Barron Jefferson John Adams July June Lear letter Lieutenant Malta March Mediterranean midshipman Morocco Morris nations Nautilus naval stores navy negotiations O'Brien officers party pasha passports peace Philadelphia port Preble Papers Preble's President prisoners prizes ransom returned Rodgers sailed schooner seaman secretary sent Shaler ship shore Siren slaves Somers soon Spanish squadron Stephen Decatur Stewart Syracuse Tangier thousand dollars tion town treaty Tripoli Tripolitan Tunis United Vixen William wounded xebec Popular passagesPage 58 - To secure respect to a neutral flag, requires a naval force, organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression. This may even prevent the necessity of going to war... Page 97 - Unauthorized by the Constitution, without the sanction of Congress, to go beyond the line of defense, the vessel, being disabled from committing further hostilities, was liberated with its crew. The Legislature will doubtless consider whether, by authorizing measures of offense also, they will place our force on an equal footing with that of its adversaries. Page 77 - I hope I may never again be sent to Algiers with tribute, unless I am authorized to deliver it from the mouth of our cannon. Page 262 - ... of the circumstances, and will take on himself the responsibility. In all these cases the purity and patriotism of the motives should shield the agent from blame, and even secure a sanction where the error is not too injurious. Page 172 - We escaped these also, and while urging the ketch onwards with sweeps, the crew were commenting upon the beauty of the spray thrown up by the shot between us and the brilliant light of the ship, rather than calculating any danger that might be apprehended from the contact. The appearance of the ship was indeed magnificent. The flames in the interior illuminated her ports and, ascending her rigging and masts, formed columns of fire, which, meeting the tops, were reflected into beautiful capitals;... Page 77 - ... to requisition her to carry his ambassador and some Turkish passengers to Constantinople. Bainbridge, who felt justly humiliated by his mission, wrathfully refused. An American frigate do errands for this insignificant pirate? He thought not! The Dey pointed to his batteries, however, and remarked, "You pay me tribute, by which you become my slaves; I have, therefore, a right to order you as I 35 may think proper. Page 26 - It will not be to the interest of any of the great maritime Powers to protect them from the Barbary States. If they know their interests, they will not encourage the Americans to be carriers. That the Barbary States are advantageous to maritime Powers is certain. Page 35 - Unless it were possible then to persuade the great maritime powers of Europe to unite in the suppression of these piracies, it would be very imprudent for us to entertain any thoughts of contending with them, and will only lay a foundation, (by irritating their passions and increasing their insolence and their demands) for long and severe repentance. Page 261 - May 19, prove that he had the most correct idea of our intentions. His verbal instructions, indeed, to Mr. Eaton and Captain Hull, if the expressions are accurately committed to writing by those gentlemen, do not limit the extent of his co-operation as rigorously as he probably intended ; but it is certain, from the ex-Bashaw's letter of January 3d, written when he was proceeding to join Mr. Eaton, and in which he says, "your operations should be carried on by sea, mine by land," that he left the... Page 35 - Emperor, &c., will submit to be tributary to these robbers, and even encourage them, to what purpose should we make war upon them ? The resolution might be heroic, but would not be wise. The contest would be unequal. They can injure us very sensibly, but we cannot hurt them in the smallest degree. We have, or shall have, a rich trade at sea exposed to their depredations ; they have none at all upon which we can make reprisals. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarJohn Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Barbary Pirates: An ...Dennis Caplan - 2003 - Issues in Accounting Education “a Blaze Of Reputation And The Echo Of A Name”: The Legal Career ...IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY PHILADELPHIA - 2004 Bibliographic information
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