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Loading... Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold And Daringby Spencer C. Tucker
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Belongs to SeriesLibrary of Naval Biography (2004)
Brave, energetic, intensely patriotic, Stephen Decatur is America's first great naval hero after John Paul Jones. His short and dramatic life is a story of triumph and tragedy told by the noted historian and author of some twenty books, Spencer Tucker. Decatur's raid into Tripoli Harbor in 1804 to burn the Philadelphia, a prized U.S. warship captured when it ran aground during the Barbary Wars, earned him international fame. An admiring Horatio Nelson described the feat as ""the most bold and daring act of the age."" Explaining the tremendous impact Decatur's action had on the early U.S. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)973.4History and Geography North America United States Constitutional period (1789-1809)LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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