Bourbon |Frigate | 36 |Built at |Sold, September, 1783. | | | Middletown, | | | | Conn., | | | | 1782-1783 | | | | | America |Ship-of- | 74 |Laid down, |Presented to France by |the-line | | May, 1777; | Resolution of Congress of | | | launched, | September 3, 1782, to | | | November 5, | replace the _Magnifique_, | | | 1782 | wrecked, August 13, 1782, | | | | on Lovell’s Island, near | | | | Boston. | | | | Indian |Frigate | 40 |Built by |Sold to France to escape | | | Congress in | diplomatic complications; | | | Holland | hired to South Carolina; | | | | captured, December 19, | | | | 1782, by a British | | | | squadron. | | | | Alliance |Frigate | 32 |Built at |Sold, August, 1785. With this | | | Salisbury, | sale ended the navy of the | | | Mass., 1778 | Revolution. -------------+---------+----+---------------+----------------------------- CHAPTER IX Stretching along the southern shore of the Mediterranean some 1,800 miles, in the latitude, roughly speaking, of Cape Hatteras, are the regions known to our forefathers as Barbary. The westernmost was Morocco, then Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. The last three were nominally appanages of the Turkish Empire. Anciently there had been along these shores a high civilization. Carthage (now Tunis) had disputed with Rome the empire of the Mediterranean; she failed through Rome’s final dominancy at sea, and her power was utterly wrecked, as was the city itself. Rome ruled and built thriving cities throughout the coastline mentioned, the remains of which now mark but dimly the footsteps of civilization and history.