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After the arrival of the Indian delegates from Medoctec and Madawaska a general conference was held at Aukpaque, and it was agreed "that peace and friendship be now established permanent and lasting between the United States and the several tribes"; also that a truck house be established by John Preble where the Indians should obtain good prices for their furs.
Preble says of Canby: "I cannot agree with his claim, and neither does the record support it" ... and besides it is practically charging Washington and the rest of the committee with seeking to establish and set up a national ensign before we had even declared ourselves a free people with an independent national government, and without any delegated authority to do so, the record of Congress being silent on the subject; so therefore we have: First.
The ship was immediately repaired, the guns were re-mounted, and the gallant but unfortunate Bainbridge had the final misery of seeing his old command safely moored off the town, and about a quarter of a mile from the Pasha's castle. Preble heard of this catastrophe from an English frigate to which he spoke off Sardinia on his way to Tripoli.
And all the time Jake Preble waited, looking at her back and wondering if after all the losses of his life he was to forfeit Mariana, who, he knew, was life itself. "Well," said he, in deep despondency, "I s'pose it's no use. I see how you feel about it. Any woman would feel the same." Mariana turned suddenly, and, seeing she was smiling, he took a hurried step to meet her.
Almost at the same moment, the United States sloop "Preble" was forced out of the fight by the British gunboats, that pressed so fiercely upon her that she cut her cables and drifted inshore. The "Ticonderoga" fought a gallant fight throughout.
Preble combined the mental force of the educated white man with the brawn of the savage, and although not supposed to do it, he took the same sort of loads as Billy did. Mine, for the best of reasons, were small, and consisted chiefly of the guns, cameras, and breakables, or occasionally, while they were transporting the heavy stuff, I acted as cook.
In feverish letters he implored Preble to bombard the town, to sink the gunboats in the harbor, to recapture the frigate or to burn her at her moorings anything to take away the bitterness of humiliation. The latter alternative, indeed, Preble had been revolving in his own mind. Toward midnight of February 16, 1804, Bainbridge and his companions were aroused by the guns of the fort.
Some months afterwards, when Commodore Preble was still off the Barbary Coast, there was a vessel in the squadron called the "Nautilus," which was commanded by a young Jerseyman named Somers. He was a brave sailor, and had already distinguished himself on several occasions.
The Tripolitans never got a chance to use the Philadelphia against us, for Decatur who was at that time a lieutenant serving under Commodore Preble, who commanded our navy in those waters boarded her one night with twenty men while she was lying in the harbor, swept the deck of more than double that number of pirates, burned the vessel under their very noses, and returned to his ship with only one man wounded.
Nothing could have suited the daring fellow better. Lieutenant Charles Stewart, who arrived a short time before in the Siren, not knowing of the scheme that had been formed, proposed with the Siren's men to cut out the Philadelphia. Preble informed him the honor had been given to Decatur.
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