Edward Eggleston
Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans
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Excerpt: ... to these pirates to let their ships go safe. Our country had trouble with the pirates. This trouble brought on a war. Our ships were sent to fight against Trip-o-li. One of the ships fighting against the pirates was called the Phil-a-del-phi-a. One day she was chasing a ship of Trip-o-li. The Phil-a-del-phi-a ran on the rocks. The sailors could not get her off. The pirates came and fought her as she lay on the rocks. They took her men prisoners. Then they went to work to get her off. After a long time they got her into deep water. They took her to Tripoli. Our ships could not go there after her, because there were so many great c…
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Excerpt: ... to these pirates to let their ships go safe. Our country had trouble with the pirates. This trouble brought on a war. Our ships were sent to fight against Trip-o-li. One of the ships fighting against the pirates was called the Phil-a-del-phi-a. One day she was chasing a ship of Trip-o-li. The Phil-a-del-phi-a ran on the rocks. The sailors could not get her off. The pirates came and fought her as she lay on the rocks. They took her men prisoners. Then they went to work to get her off. After a long time they got her into deep water. They took her to Tripoli. Our ships could not go there after her, because there were so many great cannons on the shore near the ship. The pirates got the Philadelphia ready to go to sea. They loaded her cannons. They meant to slip out past our ships of war. Then they would take a great many smaller American ships. But the Americans laid a plan to burn the Philadelphia. It was a very dan-ger-ous thing to try to do. The pirates had ships of war near the Philadelphia. They had great guns on the shore. There was no way to do it in the day-time. It could only be done by stealing into the Bay of Tripoli at night. The Americans had taken a little vessel from the pirates. She was of the kind that is called a ketch. She had sails. She also had long oars. When there was no wind to sail with, the sailors could row her with the oars. This little ketch was sent one night to burn the Philadelphia. The captain of this boat was Ste-phen De-ca-tur. He was a young man, and very brave. De-ca-tur made his men lie down, so that the pirates would not know how many men he had on his ketch. Only about ten men were in sight. The rest were lying hidden on the boat. They came near to the Philadelphia. It was about ten o'clock at night. The pirates called to them. The pilot of the ketch told them that he was from Mal-ta. He told them that he had come to sell things to the people of Tripoli. He said that the ketch had lost her anchor....
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- ISBN: 978-1-153-74546-8
- EAN: 9781153745468
- Produktnummer: 14787593
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 28 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D0.1 cm 78 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 78
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