MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Question
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USS Philadelphia
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USS Enterprise
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USS Independence
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USS Arizona
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Detailed explanation-1: -Caption: NH 50459: Burning of USS Philadelphia, 16 February 1804. 19th Century painting depicting the Philadelphia aflame in Tripoli harbor, after she had been captured and set afire by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur’s boarding party.
Detailed explanation-2: -The USS Philadelphia ran aground in 1803 on an uncharted reef during the Barbary Wars and the ship and crew were taken captive.
Detailed explanation-3: -USS Philadelphia (CL-41) was a Brooklyn-class light cruiser of the United States Navy. She was the fifth ship named for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1950s, she was commissioned into the Brazilian Navy as Almirante Barroso.
Detailed explanation-4: -First Barbary War, also called Tripolitan War, (1801–05), conflict between the United States and Tripoli (now in Libya), incited by American refusal to continue payment of tribute to the piratical rulers of the North African Barbary States of Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, and Tripoli.