American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 169
r it, but she reached the first tree before the party onshore had quite succeeded in cutting it down, and a few shots from the howitzer drove themoff. Going back some fifty years from this, we come to the time of the memorable siegeof Tripoli by our navy, a stirring episode of which is here… … Shelling the Guerillas. Drawn by Merrill. As Decatur rushes upon the Turkish captain, the latter makes a thrust at him with aboardmg pike. Decatur parries with his cutlass, but the blade breaks at the hilt. The Turkmakes another lunge, and this time wounds Decatur in the breast. The American…
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