Life — June 23, 1898 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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Ignorance. HREE angels sat in the moonlight glow On a grave that was freshly green. One came from above, one came from below, And one from the placo between, And one of them said, as the granite shone In tho light that the good moon sheds “ Twonder just what is beneath this stone? But the other two shook their heads, *LIFE: guns and ammunition; and the Dey, rely- ing upon the statement, immediately re- nowed hostilities, and while our navy was engaged with England he lost no means of making it unpleasant for us, When, therefcre, in the summer of 1815, the American squadron appeared before Algiers, and with it thr ssels—the Guer- riére, the Cyane and the Epercier—which had been captured from gland and now waved the American flag, that potentate 529 pear with another squadron in tho Medi- terrancan and emphasize our attitude toward tho three rulers, this practically sottled the matter, and the presence of a small squadron was enough to keep peaco with these barbarians, 1815—1861, rT ROM the close of the second war with England to the civil war, our navy was engaged in many minor exploits in Destruction of Confederate Privateer Petre! by the St. Lawrence, Our Flag Afloat. YARD-ARM HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. Ly Midshipman Marlinspike, VILL. ONCE MORE THE HE British Minister had informed tho Dey of Algiers that the A “an Navy, which proved so disastrous to his DEY OF ALGIERS. moric had country’s piratical aspirations, would bo John Bull in the second war for our independence. John Bull had, furthermore, assisted the Dey in acquiring an effectivo navy, by sending him swept off tho ocean by was greatly surprised, informed that Mashonda, been When, also, he was tho Algerian flagship, the and another vessel, had already uns only a few 1is surprise grew uptured by the Ame da before wise, when he was notified by Cap- tain epben Decatur that all the other vessels in his navy might also be captured and Algiers itself subj ed to much un- sleasantness, his surprise knew no bounds. . and agreed to everything that Decatur demanded. Decatur then appeared before Tunis and Tripoli and accomplished the same result, and although shortly afterward it becamo necessary for Oliver Hazard Perry to ap- ous parts of the world, and there were brilliant instan corded, In tho extermination of the pirates from the waters around the West Indics (1821-1823)—where our ships are gaged in hunting Matanzas mules, and incidentally trying to locate Spanish squad- rons—the young Farragut received much of bis naval In 1832 an effeet- ive lesson was given to the Malay town of Qualla Battoo, Sumatra, for treachery to ono of our merchant vessels, and during the war with Mexico our vesseis did most desirable work on the Pacific coast and the coast of Mexico, Then, in 1853-4, occurred a triumph of many of bravery re- now en- Xperience, comicbooks.com