Keywords: outdoor LC-USZC4-6409: First Barbary War, Bombardment of Tripoli, August 3, 1804. US Squadron led by Commodore Edward Preble in the flagship USS Constitution, right, successfully shelling forts of the Barbary pirates at close range. During this action, Captain Stephen Decatur led a board party which captured three pirate craft. Photomechanical print on the artwork by Michele Felice Corne. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. This illustration was in Life Magazine, October 28, 1940. (5/8/2015). LC-USZC4-6409: First Barbary War, Bombardment of Tripoli, August 3, 1804. US Squadron led by Commodore Edward Preble in the flagship USS Constitution, right, successfully shelling forts of the Barbary pirates at close range. During this action, Captain Stephen Decatur led a board party which captured three pirate craft. Photomechanical print on the artwork by Michele Felice Corne. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. This illustration was in Life Magazine, October 28, 1940. (5/8/2015). |