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Ropes were then thrown out and the vessels were drawing together, when the cry "Americanas!" went up from the deck of the frigate. In a trice Decatur and his men had scrambled aboard and overpowered the crew. It was a crucial moment. If Decatur's instructions had not been imperative, he would have thrown prudence to the winds and have tried to cut out the frigate and make off in her.
During the early part of Decatur's struggle with the Turk, he was assailed in the rear by one of the enemy, who had just aimed a blow at his head which must have proved fatal; at this fearful juncture, a noble-hearted tar, who had been so badly wounded as to lose the use of his hands, seeing no other means of saving his commander, rushed between him and the uplifted sabre, and received the blow on his own head, which fractured his skull.
"There is a matchless simplicity about her," said a gentleman, standing by. "Her dress is becoming," said Mrs. Evelyn. "Why, where did you ever see her, Mr. Stackpole, except at our house?" said Constance. "At Mrs. Decatur's I have had that pleasure and once at her uncle's." "I didn't know you ever noticed ladies' faces, Mr. Stackpole," said Florence. "How Mrs.
Says a naval one day, to the skipper of a fishing boat that he took, says he, is it true Commodore Decatur's sword is made of an old iron hoop? Well, says the skipper, I'm not quite certified as to that, seein as I never sot eyes on it; but I guess if he gets a chance he'll shew you the temper of it some of these days, any how.
Decatur had a cutlass, and the Turk a pike. The latter inflicted a slight wound on Decatur's breast, and in parrying the stroke his sword broke off at the hilt. Flinging the weapon aside, the American sprang like a tiger at his antagonist. The two fell to the deck, Decatur under, and flat on his back.
These detachments were to act separately under their several commodores; but as Decatur's preparations were only a few days behind those of Rodgers, the latter decided to wait for him, and on October 8 the two sailed in company, for mutual support until outside the lines of enemies, in case of meeting with a force superior to either singly.
But for the delay caused by his fight with Captain Reid he would have shut out General Jackson from the city and prevented his winning the most glorious land victory of the whole war. Resentment of the Barbary States The War with Algiers Captain Decatur's Vigorous Course His Astonishing Success as a Diplomat. It was not alone in our wars with the leading nations that the American navy won glory.
Algiers had taken advantage of the War of 1812 to capture American vessels. In 1815 the Dey was compelled on the quarter-deck of Decatur's ship to sign a treaty of peace and amity. All our commercial treaties had disappeared in the war, and had to be painfully renewed.
The Commodore's words reflected often an animosity, personal as well as national, aroused by the liberal abuse bestowed on him by British writers. On October 11 Decatur's division parted company, the "President" and "Congress" continuing together and steering to the eastward.
"Dare I ask you to go with me to-morrow?" "I don't know," said Fleda with the old childish sparkle of her eye, "but if you ask me, sir, I will go." He sat down beside her immediately, and Fleda knew by his change of eye that her former thought had been right. "Shall I see you at Mrs. Decatur's to-morrow?" "No, sir."
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