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Excerpt from Blue Jackets of '76: A History of the Naval Battles of the American Revolution; Together With a Narrative of the War With Tripoli
This combat is the earliest action upon American waters of which we have any trustworthy records. The only naval event antedating this was the expedition from'virginia, under Capt. Samuel Argal, against the little French settlement Of San Sauveur. Indeed, had it not been for the pirates and the neighboring French settlements, there would be little in the early history of the American Colonies to attract the lover of naval history. But about 1645 the buccaneers began to commit depre dations on the high seas, and it became necessary for the Colonies to take steps for the protection Of their commerce. In this year an eighteen gun Ship from Cambridge, Mass, fell in with a Barbary pirate of twenty guns, and was hard put to it to escape. And, as the seventeenth century drew near its close, these pests of the sea SO increased, that evil was sure to befall the peaceful merchantman' that put to sea with out due preparation for a fight or two with the sea robbers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
