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Desperate conflict of American seamen under Decatur, on boarding a Tri...
Illustration shows Stephen Decatur and his men fighting hand-to-hand fight on board a Tripolitan gunboat during the First Barbary War. Illus. in: Life and death on the ocean: a collection of extraordinary adve... More
A perspective view of the loss of the U.S. frigate Philadelphia in whi...
Photograph shows Tripolitan gun boats firing on the U.S.S. Philadelphia and during the Tripolitan Wars, 1803. Original engraving by Charles Denoon not in LC collection, which has only a black-and-white reproduction.