The Library of American Biography: The life of Stephen Decatur
Author : Jared Sparks
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1846
Category : United States
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Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher :
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1846
Category : United States
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Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher :
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 1864
Category : United States
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Author : Jared Sparks
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 1839
Category : United States
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Author : James Tertius de Kay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439119295
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.
Author : Leonard F. Guttridge
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780765307026
"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.
Author : Alexander Slidell Mackenzie
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Jared SPARKS
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : United States Naval Academy. Library
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Page : 580 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Naval biography
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Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher :
Page : 1344 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 1870
Category : American literature
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 994 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Subject catalogs
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