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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

by: Waldo, S. Putnam (Samuel Putnam), 1780-1826

Publication date: 1822

Topics: Decatur, Stephen, 1779-1820, United States. Navy, United States. Navy

Publisher: Middletown, (Conn.) Printed by Clark & Lyman; for O. D. Cooke

Collection: library_of_congress; americana

Contributor: The Library of Congress

Language: English

Volume: 2

xi, [13]-378 p. 19 cm

With important additions; containing sketches of some distinguished contemporaries of Com Decatur--a naval register--list of the navy, &c. ..

First published 1821

"The miniature portraits' of Bainbridge, Porter, Lawrence, and Macdonald, were furnished by another hand." cf. Pref