| Commodore Truxtun leaped into the shrouds | Frontispiece |
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| The death of Tippo-Sahib at the storming of Seringapatam | 12 |
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| The battle of Tippecanoe | 16 |
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| The frigate Philadelphia ran aground in the harbor of Tripoli, the Tripolitans capturing Captain Bainbridge and his entire crew | 54 |
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| But even in those days the fame of American gunners was as wide as the seas | 86 |
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| The battle of New Orleans | 120 |
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| Westward pressed the little troop of pioneers, across the sun-baked lava beds of southwestern Utah | 136 |
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| The Sacramento Valley in 1845 | 164 |
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| General William Walker and his men, after a long and stormy voyage, landing at Virgin Bay, en route to Costa Rica | 196 |
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| General Walker reviewing troops on the Grand Plaza, Granada | 200 |
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| The programme was always the same: the sudden rush of the filibusters with their high, shrill yell; the taking of the barracks and the cathedral in the Plaza | 206 |
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| "Come on, boys!" shouted Ward. "We're going in!" and plunged through the narrow opening, a revolver in each hand | 230 |
