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Desperate conflict of American seamen under Decatur, on boarding a Tripolitan corsair / Whitney and Jocelyn sc; Darley, fecit.

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Desperate conflict of American seamen under Decatur, on boarding a Tripolitan corsair / Whitney and Jocelyn sc; Darley, fecit.

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Illustration shows Stephen Decatur and his men fighting hand-to-hand fight on board a Tripolitan gunboat during the First Barbary War.

Illus. in: Life and death on the ocean: a collection of extraordinary adventures ... / Henry Howe. Cincinnati : H. Howe, 1855.
Reference copy in LOT 7006.

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01/01/1855
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Whitney & Jocelyn, engraver
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888, artist
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Library of Congress
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