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Title details for Decatur's Bold and Daring Act--The Philadelphia in Tripoli 1804 by Mark Lardas - Wait list

Decatur's Bold and Daring Act--The Philadelphia in Tripoli 1804

by Mark Lardas
Steve Noon
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On a dark night in 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur and a team of hand-picked men, slipped into Tripoli harbor in a small boat. Their target was the USS Philadelphia. Captured by the Barbary pirates four months previously, the Philadelphia had been refitted to fight against her former masters. Decatur's mission was to either recapture the ship, or failing that, burn her to the waterline. This book recounts one of the greatest raids in American military history, an event that propelled Stephen Decatur to international renown, and which prompted Horatio Nelson to declare it 'the most bold and daring act of the age'.
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Series: Raid Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Kindle Book

  • Release date: July 20, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781849088329
  • Release date: July 20, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781849088329
  • File size: 9027 KB
  • Release date: July 20, 2011

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subjects

History Military Crime Nonfiction

Languages

English

On a dark night in 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur and a team of hand-picked men, slipped into Tripoli harbor in a small boat. Their target was the USS Philadelphia. Captured by the Barbary pirates four months previously, the Philadelphia had been refitted to fight against her former masters. Decatur's mission was to either recapture the ship, or failing that, burn her to the waterline. This book recounts one of the greatest raids in American military history, an event that propelled Stephen Decatur to international renown, and which prompted Horatio Nelson to declare it 'the most bold and daring act of the age'.
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History Military Crime Nonfiction