Stephen Decatur - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stephen Decatur write by Spencer Tucker. This book was released on 2005. Stephen Decatur available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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."
A Rage for Glory
A Rage for Glory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Rage for Glory write by James Tertius de Kay. This book was released on 2010-05-11. A Rage for Glory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stephen Decatur was one of the most awe-inspiring officers of the entire Age of Fighting Sail. A real-life American naval hero in the early nineteenth century, he led an astonishing life, and his remarkable acts of courage in combat made him one of the most celebrated figures of his era. Decatur's dazzling exploits in the Barbary Wars propelled him to national prominence at the age of twenty-five. His dramatic capture of HMS Macedonian in the War of 1812, and his subsequent naval and diplomatic triumphs in the Mediterranean, secured his permanent place in the hearts of his countrymen. Handsome, dashing, and fearless, his crews worshipped him, presidents lionized him, and an adoring public heaped fresh honors on him with each new achievement. James Tertius de Kay is one of our foremost naval historians. In A Rage for Glory, the first new biography of Decatur in almost seventy years, he recounts Decatur's life in vivid colors. Drawing on material unavailable to previous biographers, he traces the origins of Decatur's fierce patriotism ("My country...right or wrong!"), chronicles Decatur's passionate love affair with Susan Wheeler, and provides new details of Decatur's tragic death in a senseless duel of honor, secretly instigated by the backroom machinations of jealous fellow officers determined to ruin him. His death left official Washington in such shock that his funeral became a state occasion, attended by friends who included former President James Madison, current President James Monroe, Chief Justice John Marshall, and ten thousand more. Decatur's short but crowded life was an astonishing epic of hubris, romance, and high achievement. Only a handful of Americans since his time have ever come close to matching his extraordinary glamour and brilliance.
The Library of American Biography: The life of Stephen Decatur
The Library of American Biography: The life of Stephen Decatur - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Library of American Biography: The life of Stephen Decatur write by Jared Sparks. This book was released on 1846. The Library of American Biography: The life of Stephen Decatur available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Life of Stephen Decatur
Life of Stephen Decatur - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life of Stephen Decatur write by Alexander Slidell Mackenzie. This book was released on 1846. Life of Stephen Decatur available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Our Country, Right Or Wrong
Our Country, Right Or Wrong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Country, Right Or Wrong write by Leonard F. Guttridge. This book was released on 2007-09-04. Our Country, Right Or Wrong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Decatur not only proved dauntless on the quarterdeck but amazingly effective in Mediterranean diplomacy. His spectacular dealings with Islamic powers presaged America's twenty-first century involvement in the region." "Readers will also learn the identity of the woman he forsook for a sophisticated beauty pursued by suitors as varied as Napoleon Bonaparte's brother and Aaron Burr. Through freshly discovered documents, many official, some intensely personal, biographer Leonard Guttridge traces the elements that sped Decatur inexorably into the shadow of murder."--BOOK JACKET.
