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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), France, early relations with. (search)
olson, and Phillips. Decatur soon captured a French corsair (April, 1798). So many American armed vessels in West India waters, in the summer and autumn of 1798, astonished the British and French authorities there. At the close of that year the American navy consisted of twenty-three vessels, with a total of 446 guns. It was much strengthened during the year 1799 by the launching and putting into commission several new ships, and victories over the French on the ocean were gained. In February, 1799, Commodore Truxton, in the Constellation, captured the French frigate L'Insurgente; and in February, 1800, he gained a victory over the French frigate La Vengeance. The convention at Paris brought about peace between the two nations, and the navy of the United States was called to another field of action. While war with France seemed inevitable, and was actually occurring on the ocean, a change in the government of that country occurred, which averted from the United States the calam
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Porter, David 1780- (search)
Porter, David 1780- Naval officer; born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 1, 1780; was appointed a midshipman, April 16, 1798, and, as lieutenant on the frigate Constellation, fought L'Insurgente in February, 1799, and was promoted soon afterwards. He was wounded in an engagement with a pirate (January, 1800) off Santo Domingo, and was first lieutenant of the Enterprise, which captured a Tripolitan corsair. He afterwards commanded an expedition that destroyed some feluccas, laden with wheat, under the batteries at Tripoli. where he was wounded. In October, 1803, David Porter. he was captured in the Philadelphia when she grounded in the harbor of Tripoli, and was a prisoner and slave for eighteen months. In 1806, in command of the Enterprise, he fought and severely handled twelve Spanish gunboats near Gibraltar. In 1812 he was commissioned captain and placed in command of the Essex, in which he made a long and successful cruise in the Pacific Ocean. This cruise was one of the most