Stephen Decatur, from a painting by Rembrandt Peale[Frontispiece]
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"I'd Blow Every One of Those Pirate Nests Out of
the Water Before I'd Pay One of Those Bloody
Bashaws a Sixpence!" Said the Commodore		[13]
Wrecking and Piracy Had Been Followed by the
Communities Bordering on the Mediterranean
Since the Earliest Days		[35]
In Look and in Deed, William Eaton was a Fighter[94]
"How Dare You Lift Your Hand Against a Subject
of Mine," the Bey of Tunis Demanded of Eaton		[101]
I Hoped that I Might Join a Caravan that Would
Pass by Tokra—the Treasure City of My Dreams		[105]
"We Are Bound Across This Gloomy Desert to
Liberate Three Hundred Americans from the
Chains of Barbarism."—General Eaton		[135]
This Was the First Time an American Flag Had
Been Raised on a Fort of the Old World		[165]

PIRATE PRINCES

AND

YANKEE JACKS

CHARACTERS OF THE STORY

David Forsyth, an orphan.