Young folks' history of the United States . LIEUTENANT DECATUR. 238 BurningChe Phila-delphia. YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. in the harbor of Tripoli, and was captured; and thecrew were made slaves. A young lieutenant, namedDecatur, proposed to the commander of the fleet totake command of a Tripolitan vessel that had just beencaptured, put an American crew on board, enter theharbor by night, and rescue or burn the was successfully done. The little Tripolitan ves-. DECATUR BURNING THE PHILADELPHIA. sel came quietly in beside the captured frigate ; andDecatur and his men recaptured
Young folks' history of the United States . LIEUTENANT DECATUR. 238 BurningChe Phila-delphia. YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. in the harbor of Tripoli, and was captured; and thecrew were made slaves. A young lieutenant, namedDecatur, proposed to the commander of the fleet totake command of a Tripolitan vessel that had just beencaptured, put an American crew on board, enter theharbor by night, and rescue or burn the was successfully done. The little Tripolitan ves-. DECATUR BURNING THE PHILADELPHIA. sel came quietly in beside the captured frigate ; andDecatur and his men recaptured her in ten it was impossible to move her; and in a few min-utes the Philadelphia was in flames, and the littlevessel of Decatur was sailing out of the harbor again,without the loss of a man. This was on Feb. 15, afterwards distinguished himself in some des- JEFFERSONS ADMINISTRATION. 239 perate contests with the Tripolitans; and many yearslater, at the head of a squadron, he so intimidatedall the Barbary States, that they never afterwardsdemanded tribute of Americans, or claimed the rightto hold them as slaves. Jeffersons administration was conducted on a system Jefferson^svery different, in some respects, from those of Wash- Jab^t^^aLdington and Adams. His personal habits were very views of ^ J govern- simple, and so were his views of government. Instead going in a coach-and-six to the Capitol, as Washing-ton had done, Jeffer
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