Names of Yrs. Ships and Office. Duty and Achievements. 3d Cruise. 1813 SQUADRON. 1814 1815 SQUADRON. Frigate In what wars, Commanders, &c. Bainbridge. impressed seamen, &c. &c. &c. Macdonough Chauncey. 4th Cruise. Beat the Frigate Endymion, Hornet, 1815 SQUADRON. turned on parole. MEDITERRANEAN. Burrows. Allen. Biddle. &c. &c. Frigates Captured Algerine Frigate Ma- BARBARY POWERS, June 17 19 29 30 July 31 Aug. 9 20 Sept, 2 Sl's. of War, Ar. at Tunis, demand. $46,000 Ontario, as indemnification Epervier, Arrived at Tripoli, demanded $25,000 Schooners Arrived at Messina, repaired, Flambeau, left captives Spark, Arrived at Naples Spitfire, Torch. 1815 Navy-Com Communicat. with the king, 8 joined Com. Bainbridge 18 Nov. 12 Bainbridge. Arranging affairs of Navy with missioner. Navy Department, designating 1820 Single Died March 22, in defending the Combat. honour of the American Navy. ADDITIONS TO THE PRESENT EDITION. 1. Brief views of the most important events in the lives of Com. Bainbridge, Com. Porter, Capt, Lawrence and Com. Macdonough, contemporaries of Decatur. II. Succinct sketch of the American Navy from its commencement. III. A List of the Officers of the Navy, to wit. Secretary, Navy-Commissioners, Post-Captains, Masters-Comm'dts., and Lieutenants, with their present stations, and also a list of Midshipmen. IV. A complete list of the Vessels of war of the American Navy and stations in 1821, with other valuable tables. [As the Publisher of this EDITION has seen fit to ornament it with an elegant Frontispiece, consisting of a group of HEROES surrounding the immortalized DECATUR, it is deemed expedient to introduce into the Volume a Miniature Memoir of the gallant BAINBRIDGE, PORTER, LAWRENCE, and MACDONOUGH, his Contemporaries in War, in Peace, and in Glory. The Sketches were furnished to the Author by a gentleman, whose genius has embraced multum in parvo, and whose modesty inhibits me from mentioning his name.] COMMODORE WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE. WILLIAM Bainbridge, was born at Princeton, New-Jersey, May 7th, 1774. His father was a respectable Physician of that place. He received his education under the care of his grand-father, John Taylor, of Monmouth County; which consisted of the ordinary branches of English instruction and the French language. At the age of sixteen, he commenced a clerk-ship in a counting-house at New-York, and after a short service, went to sea in the employ of Miller and Murray. His services and conduct, were so satisfactory to them, that at the age of eighteen, they gave him a mate's birth in the ship Hope, in a voyage to Holland. During this voyage, the crew mutinied, in a gale of wind, and had nearly succeeded in throwing the Capt. overboard, when Bainbridge, hearing the alarm, took a pistol, (which was however destitute of a lock,) and by the assistance of an Irish apprentice-boy, seized the ringleader, and restored order on board. At the age of nineteen, he had command of a ship in the Dutch trade, and continued in command of various ships in the European trade un |