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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 56747

Bombardment of Tripoli, 3 August 1804


Print of a sketch depicting the Tripolitan vessels in action with Commodore Edward Preble's squadron, with Tripoli in the distance. The key below the picture identifies features afloat and ashore.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 28 March 2006