The Romantic Decatur / Charles Lee Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Charles Lee, Author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781512803877

1512803871

OCLC:

979687596