CHAPTER XIV

. DECATUR AND THE _PHILADELPHIA_ 345

Story of the Brave Men who Disguised a Ketch as a Merchantman and Sailed into the Harbor of Tripoli by Night, Drew up alongside the Captured _Philadelphia_, and then, to the Order “Boarders Away!” Climbed over the Rail and through the Ports, and with Cutlass and Pike Drove the Pirates into the Sea or to a Worse Fate--“The most Bold and Daring Act of the Age.”

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