USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Edward Preble, (born August 15, 1761, Falmouth, District of Maine, Massachusetts [now Portland, Maine, U.S.]-died August 25, 1807, Portland, District of Maine, Massachusetts [now in Maine], U.S.), commander of U.S. naval forces during the most active portion of the Tripolitan War (1801–05).

Detailed explanation-2: -Edward Preble (1761-1807), a Portland native who went to sea at 16, is known as the father of the U.S. Navy. He served during the Revolutionary War and later became the commanding officer of the USS Constitution. He defeated the Barbary Pirates in Tripoli.

Detailed explanation-3: -Two of the most famous episodes in the Barbary Wars involved the young Lieutenant Stephen Decatur. On the night of February 16, 1804, Decatur led a covert team of American sailors into Tripoli Harbor and destroyed the captured Philadelphia, ruining the Pasha’s plans of converting it into a Barbary warship.

Detailed explanation-4: -The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Tripolitan War and the Barbary Coast War, was a conflict during the Barbary Wars, in which the United States and Sweden fought against Tripolitania.