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Decatur's Bold and Daring Act - The Philadelphia in Tripoli 1804

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Type: Softcover

Product Line: Raid

Last Stocked on 2/3/2021

Product Info

Title
Decatur's Bold and Daring Act - The Philadelphia in Tripoli 1804
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Author
Mark Lardas
Publish Year
2011
Pages
80
Dimensions
8x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2147455918
MFG. Part #
OSPRAID022
Type
Softcover
Series
RAID22

Description

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’.