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people On August Commodore Edward Prebles Mediterranean Squadron launched the first of series of bombardments on the harbor of Tripoli. Designed to destroy the defending batteries and sink enemy ships the bombardments were part of the blockade that Preble had established in . During the course of the daylong bombardment US forces