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100 1 $aTucker, Spencer,$d1937-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88011938
245 10 $aStephen Decatur :$ba life most bold and daring /$cSpencer Tucker.
260 $aAnnapolis, Md. :$bNaval Institute Press,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axx, 245 pages ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aLibrary of naval biography
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-231) and index.
520 1 $a"Brave, energetic, intensely patriotic, Stephen Decatur was America's first great naval hero after John Paul Jones. Promoted to captain at the age of twenty-five, Decatur became the youngest officer ever to attain that rank in the U.S. Navy. His short, dramatic life is a story of triumph and tragedy, told here by the noted historian Spencer Tucker." "Decatur earned enduring international fame during the Barbary Wars for his 1804 foray into the harbor at Tripoli to burn the U.S. frigate Philadelphia, which had been captured by the Tripolitans when it ran aground near the harbor. An admiring Horatio Nelson described Decatur's 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 naval officers." "This book fully examines Decatur's career, chronicling his rapid rise in the navy, including his role in the Barbary Wars and his command of the frigate United States during the War of 1812, when he captured the British frigate Macedonian off the Azores. It discusses his loss of the frigate President to a British squadron in 1815 and recounts the cruise that many call Decatur's greatest triumph when, with a nine-ship squadron, he sailed to the Mediterranean to punish Algiers for its actions against American merchant shipping and secured peace with Algiers while keeping other Barbary states quiescent." "In describing the heights and depths of Decatur's life, Tucker also examines the hero's longstanding feud with James Barron, the navy captain who fatally shot Decatur during an 1820 duel over the consequences of the Chesapeake-Leopard affair."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aDecatur, Stephen,$d1779-1820.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80102170
650 0 $aAdmirals$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100645
610 10 $aUnited States.$bNavy$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140879
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yWar of 1812$xNaval operations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100186
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory, Naval$yTo 1900.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140345
830 0 $aLibrary of naval biography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99025660
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004016412.html
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