Decatur’s Bold and Daring Act

The Philadelphia in Tripoli 1804

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Military Science, History
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Author: Mark Lardas ISBN: 9781849088329
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: July 20, 2011
Imprint: Osprey Publishing Language: English
Author: Mark Lardas
ISBN: 9781849088329
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: July 20, 2011
Imprint: Osprey Publishing
Language: 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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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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