The Life and Character of Stephen Decatur: Late Commodore and Post-captain in the Navy of the United States, and Navy-commissioner, Interspersed with Brief Notices of the Origin, Progress, and Achievements of the American Navy ...Clark & Lyman, 1821 - 378 pages |
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... Constitution - Achieve- ments of Truxton , Little , & c . - Anecdotes of the elder Decatur and Tryon - Midshipman Stephen Decatur . CHAPTER IV . 30 Stephen Decatur's early education - Peculiar advantages enjoyed by him - Enters the ...
... Constitution - Achieve- ments of Truxton , Little , & c . - Anecdotes of the elder Decatur and Tryon - Midshipman Stephen Decatur . CHAPTER IV . 30 Stephen Decatur's early education - Peculiar advantages enjoyed by him - Enters the ...
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... CONSTITUTION- Perfection of discipline in the American Navy - He takes com- mand of the Frigate CONGRESS - Peace with Tripoli - Emanci- pation of Capt . Bainbridge , his officers and seamen - Meeting between them and Capt . Decatur ...
... CONSTITUTION- Perfection of discipline in the American Navy - He takes com- mand of the Frigate CONGRESS - Peace with Tripoli - Emanci- pation of Capt . Bainbridge , his officers and seamen - Meeting between them and Capt . Decatur ...
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... Constitution - Achieve- ments of Truxton , Little , & c . - Anecdotes of the elder Decatur and Tryon — Midshipman Stephen Decatur . WHEN the war of the Revolution ended in the ac- knowledgment of American Independence , the civil ...
... Constitution - Achieve- ments of Truxton , Little , & c . - Anecdotes of the elder Decatur and Tryon — Midshipman Stephen Decatur . WHEN the war of the Revolution ended in the ac- knowledgment of American Independence , the civil ...
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... constitution was tested by the practical application of its principles ; and the pa- triotism , and integrity , of all the early officers who derived their power from it , were acknowledged by their admiring countrymen . " These great ...
... constitution was tested by the practical application of its principles ; and the pa- triotism , and integrity , of all the early officers who derived their power from it , were acknowledged by their admiring countrymen . " These great ...
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... CONSTITUTION launched from a Boston ship - yard . This untutored enthusiasm was occasion- ed , not by knowing , then , the immeasurable power of a navy , but from the immense assemblage of animated citizens who witnessed the animating ...
... CONSTITUTION launched from a Boston ship - yard . This untutored enthusiasm was occasion- ed , not by knowing , then , the immeasurable power of a navy , but from the immense assemblage of animated citizens who witnessed the animating ...
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