ILLUSTRATIONS
| Commodore Truxtun leaped into the shrouds | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| The death of Tippo-Sahib at the storming of Seringapatam | [12] |
| The battle of Tippecanoe | [16] |
| The frigate Philadelphia ran aground in the harbor of Tripoli, the Tripolitans capturing Captain Bainbridge and his entire crew | [54] |
| But even in those days the fame of American gunners was as wide as the seas | [86] |
| The battle of New Orleans | [120] |
| Westward pressed the little troop of pioneers, across the sun-baked lava beds of southwestern Utah | [136] |
| The Sacramento Valley in 1845 | [164] |
| General William Walker and his men, after a long and stormy voyage, landing at Virgin Bay, en route to Costa Rica | [196] |
| General Walker reviewing troops on the Grand Plaza, Granada | [200] |
| The programme was always the same: the sudden rush of the filibusters with their high, shrill yell; the taking of the barracks and the cathedral in the Plaza | [206] |
| "Come on, boys!" shouted Ward. "We're going in!" and plunged through the narrow opening, a revolver in each hand | [230] |