Pirate Princes and Yankee Jacks

Illustrations

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