Stephen Decatur
a life most bold and daring
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Author
Publication
2005 - Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md, Maryland
Language
English
Word Count
61,250 words, Guess
Page Count
245 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3294850M
- ISBN-101557509999
- OCLC Control Number55960857
- OCLC Control Number62468984
- Library of Congress Control Number2004016412
and 2 more
- Goodreads1151581
- LibraryThing977223
Classifications
- DDC973.4/7/092
- LCCE353.1.D29 T83 2005
Description
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. Navy, the author notes that it set a standard of audacity and courage for generations of future naval officers. In describing Decatur's life, the author also examines Decatur's relationship with James Barron, a Navy captain who fatally shot Decatur during a 1820 duel.
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Genres
- Biography.
Series Statement
- Library of naval biography
Other Editions
- Stephen Decatur
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