Earn The Life And Character Of Stephen Decatur: Late Commodore And Post-Captain In The Navy Of The United States, And Navy-Commissioner, Interspersed With Brief Notices Of The Origin, Progress, And Achievements Of The American Navy (Classic Reprint) Composed By Samuel Putnam Waldo Offered In Physical Book

Life and Character of Stephen Decatur is interesting as a reflection of the time in which it was written.
It was published not long after Decaturs death, and was sufficiently popular to merit a second edition, Waldo is florid in his prose, but also offers a contemporaneous view of the time in which he lived, His remarks on taxation in the size and scope of the federal government at the end of the book make the book reading by themselves.


A more complete review of the book can be found sitelinkhere, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text, Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book without typos from the publisher, Not indexed. Not illustrated.edition. Excerpt: NewYork, private marine John Roberts, do, do. Killed. John Mercer Funk, Philadelphia, Lieut, John Archibald, NewYork, carpenter's crew Christian Clark, do, seaman George Christopher, do. ordinary seaman George Mahar, do, do. Wm. James, do. do. John Lalon, do. private marineWounded. I On board the Macedonian there were thirtysix killed, and sixtyeight wounded, Among the former were the boatswain, one master's mate, and the schoolmaster, and of the latter were the first and third lieutenants, one master's mate, and two midshipmen.
For brevity, modesty and perspicvily, we may safely challenge the admirers of the official accounts of our naval victories to produce any one that surpasses this of Com.
Decatur's. Admired they generally are, not only by the American reader, but even Englishmen, in the midst of the chagrin and.
mortification they feel while reading them, inveluntarily express their admiration, In speaking of the capture of the Macedonian, and Decatur's official account of it, a distinguished British writer thus forcibly expresses himself: " While w see British superiority upon.
the ocean thus disputed, and the victory of Americans thus described, we know not which most to admire, the heroism of Decatur in capturing the Macedonian, or his modesty in describing the battle.
" One great cause of exultation at our naval victories, has been the very short time in which they have been achieved.
Com. Decatur assigns the reason for the " unusual length of the action," onlyminutes" The enemy, being to windward, had the advantage of engaging us at his own

distance, ampc.
"The language of the naval courtmartial who tried Carden for losing his ship, is this" The court is of opinion, that previous to the commencement of.
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