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Identifier: boysof1812othern00sole (find matches)
Title: The boys of 1812 and other naval heroes
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Soley, James Russell, 1850-1911
Subjects: United States. Navy
Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s here, replied tlie consul, as he delivered the document.And the prisoners? continued Decatur. They are in the boat. As they were speaking, the Americans, who after three yearsof confinement and suffering were now to be set free, reached thequarter-deck, where they were w^armly greeted by their.deliverer. This prompt action of Decatur at Algiers, and the treatywhich resulted from it, put an end forever to the piraticaldepredations of the Barbary States upon American commerce,and the example set by the United States was soon after fol-lowed l^y England, so that Mediterranean piracy in a short timethereafter ceased to exist. On the 8th of July the squadronweighed anchor and proceeded to Tunis. During the late warthe neutrality of this port as well as that of Tripoli had beenviolated by British cruisers, which had seized within the twoharbors the prizes of an American privateer, without oppositionfrom the authorities. Commodore Decatur now proposed toobtain satisfaction for the outrage!
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THE WAR WITH ALGIERS. 315 The consul of the United States at Tunis, Major Noah, waswaiting for Decaturs arrival. He says : — • On the 30th of July, about noon, we observed signals for a fleetfrom the tower at Cape Carthage, and shortly after the Americansquadron, under full sail, came into the bay and anchored. Nothingcan be more welcome to a consul in Barbary than the sight of a fleetbearing the flag of his nation ; he feels that, surrounded by assassinsand mercenaries, he is still safe and protected, and an involuntarytribute of admiration is i)aid by the Mussuhncn to that nation which hasthe powej- and the disposition to command respect. The flags of all theconsulates were hoisted, and 1 lost no time in riding to Goletta, for thepurpose of communicating with the squadron. On my way, a Mamelukeon horseback presented me a letter from Commodore Decatur, announ-cing peace with Algiers, and desiring to know the nature of our differ-ences with Tunis. I had already prepared the docume

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:United_States__Navy
  • bookpublisher:Boston__Estes_and_Lauriat
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