Selasa, 15 November 2016

Putting Pirates in Their Place

Captain Courageous:<br /> An 1878 painting by Dennis Carter Malone shows Captain Stephen Decatur Jr. struggling with a pirate in action just months after the burning of the captured Philadelphia.Before the ‘shores of Tripoli’ were a lyric, they were the target of a daring raid

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