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To: BarnacleCenturion

I’m not sure the USS BAINBRIDGE is really the right ship for this mission, since…

- In 1800, William Bainbridge was the one selected to carry “tribute” (bribe) to the dey of Algiers in an attempt (which failed) to get the Barbary pirates to stop capturing US merchant ships.

- After delivering the bribe, Bainbridge allowed his ship to be used by the dey of Algiers to carry the Algerian ambassador to Constantinople, and even allowed them to hoist the Algerian flag on a US warship.

- Then, in 1803, in an attempted attack on the Barbary pirates of Tunisia, Bainbridge ran his ship aground in Tripoli harbor and allowed his entire crew to be captured by the pirates and imprisoned for 2-1/2 years.

Hmmm…

49 posted on 04/10/2009 5:44:14 AM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)

Keep reading your history books... he did come back to redeem himself later with the U.S. Navy.

If that gives you any hope. ;-).

188 posted on 04/10/2009 11:51:55 AM PDT by DrewsMum (www.williamsfortexas.com)

219 posted on 04/11/2009 12:39:50 AM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)

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