History of the United States Navy And Biographical Sketches of American Naval
History of the United States Navy And Biographical Sketches of American Naval
Charles J Charles Jacobs Peterson
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Napoleon, who had just before been chosen first consul, returned his personal thanks to Bambridge, and, at a later day, when the American officer was a captive, used his powerful intercession in behalf of the prisoner. The French were landed at Alicant, a neutral country, after which the George Washington spread her can- vas for home. The conduct of Bainbridge was approved, in every respect, by his government. During his absence a law had passed for the reduction of the naA-y, the number of cap...tains being cut down from twenty-eight to eleven; but though Bain- bridge had been the twenty-seventh on the old list, he found himself retained on the new. This testimony to the estima- tion in which he Avas held by the department, was the more flattering from the mortifications he had just undergone. A further compliment was now paid him, in an order to take command of the Essex thirty-tAvo, and join the squadron destined for the Mediteri'anean, under Commodore Dale. On this duty, Bainbridge Avas absent about a year.
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