Decatur's Revenge

It was Commodore Preble's war now, and he was still sore as a boil over the capture of the Philadelphia. His men were laboring on what the grinning Barbary pirates called the American Fort, to add to the British Fort and the French Fort, all bastions built by Murad's prisoners. Well, if Stephen Decatur had anything to do with it, there would be no American Fort -- nor would there be any Bashaw on the throne of Tripoli. Even Commodore Preble put the odds at 100 to one against their success, but Decatur and his crew sailed ahead ...Edwin Palmer Hoyt is the author of 'Decatur's Revenge' with ISBN 9780783888323 and ISBN 0783888325.