The eastern, or most weatherly division of the enemy’s gun boats, nine in number, as being least supported, was the aim of the American
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This series has seven easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: American Fleet Assembles off Coast of Libya.IntroductionAt the opening
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If Pope Pius VII represented the decay of ancient superstition, Bonaparte represented the high and palmy state of modern opinion; yet not insulting
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