FASCINATION ABOUT OLD IRON SIDE

Constellation and President arrived at Tripoli over the ninth with Samuel Barron in command; Preble was pressured to relinquish his command in the squadron to Barron, who was senior in rank.[85] Constitution was requested to Malta to the 11th for repairs and, while en route, captured two Greek vessels seeking to produce wheat into Tripoli.The earli

But a person month afterwards, she met with one of these all over again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the main shot of the legendary battle; twenty minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so poorly destroyed that she was not really worth towing to port.off Brazil on December 29. A British shot wrecked her helm, but by