The Romantic Decatur / / Charles Lee Lewis.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1937 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anniversary Collection
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations
- I. A Child of War and the Sea
- II Launching Time
- III. The War with France
- IV. The Burning of the Philadelphia
- V. A Captain at Twenty-Five
- VI. Hand-to-Hand Fighting
- VII. Peace with Tripoli
- VIII. Home from the War
- IX. Sailors' Rights
- X. Declaration of War
- XI. The United States Captures the Macedonian
- XII. Decatur Blockaded
- XIII. The Loss of the President
- XIV. Tribute from the Gannon's Mouth
- XV. Rewards of Valor
- XVI. Affairs of Honor
- XVII. Decatur and Barron
- XVIII. The Tragedy
- Songs and Poems
- Bibliography and Sources
- Notes
- Index
- Backmatter