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5755. NAVY, Build a.—[continued].

Tribute or war is the
usual alternative of these [Barbary] pirates.
* * * Why not begin a navy then and decide
on war? We cannot begin in a better
cause nor against a weaker foe.—
To Horatio Gates. Ford ed., iv, 24.
(P. Dec. 1784)