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Stephen Decatur, from a painting by Rembrandt Peale Frontispiece
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"I'd Blow Every One of Those Pirate Nests Out of the Water Before I'd Pay One of Those Bloody Bashaws a Sixpence!" Said the Commodore 13
Wrecking and Piracy Had Been Followed by the Communities Bordering on the Mediterranean Since the Earliest Days 35
In Look and in Deed, William Eaton was a Fighter 94
"How Dare You Lift Your Hand Against a Subject of Mine," the Bey of Tunis Demanded of Eaton 101
I Hoped that I Might Join a Caravan that Would Pass by Tokra—the Treasure City of My Dreams 105
"We Are Bound Across This Gloomy Desert to Liberate Three Hundred Americans from the Chains of Barbarism."—General Eaton 135
This Was the First Time an American Flag Had Been Raised on a Fort of the Old World 165
PIRATE PRINCES
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YANKEE JACKS