For several years, however, a squadron was maintained there and more than once its services were needed, but the work was completed and since then no trouble in that quarter of the world of the nature described has plagued either ourselves or any other nation.
Even in the Mediterranean our navy had similar work to do.

While little Greece was making so gallant a struggle for freedom against Turkey a number of her vessels played the role of pirate and attacked ships of other nations.

Among others, an English brig had been seized, but Lieutenant Lewis M.Goldsborough, after a furious fight, recaptured the vessel.

Lieutenant John A.Carr singled out the Greek captain and in the fierce hand-to-hand conflict killed him.

Lieutenant Goldsborough--who afterward became rear-admiral--received the thanks of several of the Mediterranean powers for his assistance in ridding the waters of the pirates who, though few in number, became exceedingly troublesome.
It was by such prompt, vigorous and brave measures that the American navy compelled the respect not only of civilized but of barbarous peoples in all parts of the world.