A Biographical History of the County of Litchfield Connecticut Comprising Biog
A Biographical History of the County of Litchfield Connecticut Comprising Biog
Payne Kenyon Kilbourne
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'Uit thf American Government wa:^ not uu mindful of tljc 213 fate of iis unfortunate defenders. Diiringtlie summer of 1804, an American squadron was sent out under Commodore Preble against Tripoli. On the 3d of August, the squadron stood in for the harbor, and commenced a severe cannonade against the shipping, and also bombarded the town. Three of the Tripolitan gun-boats were captured, three were sunk, a num- ber of prisoners were taken, and many killed and wounded, with but little loss on the... part of the Americans. On the 7th, Commodore Preble renewed the attack on the town with much execution, though sustaining a greater loss than on the former occasion. The Bashaw still demanding a large ransom for his prisoners, on the 2€th of August, and again on the 3d of September, the attack was renewed upon the town, and upon the gallies and gun-boats of the enemy. Soon after, the weather proving unfavorable, and the ammunition being great- ly reduced, the Commodore dismissed all the vessels but three, for Syracuse, and with these determined to keep up the block- ade.
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