Excerpt from The Library of American Biography, Vol. 21 Enemy's Flotilla. Hand to hand Engagement. - Learns that his Brother James had been treacherously slain. - Boards the Tripolitan. Struggle of Decatur and a Tripolitan Captain. - self-devotion of a Sailor to save Decatur. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.