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RAID22: Decatur’s Bold and Daring Act – The Philadelphia in Tripoli

RAID22: Decatur’s Bold and Daring Act – The Philadelphia in Tripoli

SKU: 9781849083744

Price: $20.90AUD inc. GST

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Author
Mark Lardas

Author
Steve Noon

Author
Donato Spedaliere

Author
Mariusz Kozik

About this book
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’.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Origins
  • Initial strategy
  • Plan
  • The Raid
  • Analysis
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading

Paperback; July 2011; 80 pages; ISBN: 9781849083744