Stephen Decatur, from a painting by Rembrandt Peale | Frontispiece | | PAGE | "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 AND YANKEE JACKS
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