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Pictorial Americana

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TRIPOLITAN WAR

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A perspective view of the loss of the U.S. frigate Philadelphia in which is represented her relative position to the Tripolitan gunboats when during their furious attack upon her she was unable to get a single gun to bear upon them A perspective view of the loss of the U.S. frigate Philadelphia in which is represented her relative position to the Tripolitan gunboats when during their furious attack upon her she was unable to get a single gun to bear upon them. Engraving after Dencon.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-60
The burning of the American fregate the Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli The burning of the American fregate the Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli. Engraving by John B. Guerrazzi, 1805
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-59
...U. S. frigate Constitution... capturing His Britannic Majesty's frigate Guerrierre... Desperate conflict of the American seamen under Decatur, on boarding a Tripolitan corsair. Wood engraving by Henry Howe, Life and death on the ocean, 1855, after F.O.C. Darley.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-3760
Bombardment of Tripoli, August 1804 Bombardment of Tripoli, August 1804. Lithograph by N. Currier, 1846.
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-4

 

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