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Captain Edward Preble requested to choose command of Constitution in the letter dated fourteen May 1803[65] as his flagship and manufactured preparations to command a brand new squadron for a third blockade try. The ship was recommissioned on twenty May well.[sixty six] The copper sheathing on her hull required to get replaced and Paul Revere suppl

Constitution patrolled the North African coast for 2 several years after the war ended, to enforce the phrases of the treaty." Preble demanded that the opposite ship establish herself and the stranger replied, "This is certainly His Britannic Majesty's ship Donegal, 84 guns, Sir Richard Strachan, an English commodore." He then commanded Preble, "Se