Word: sicilian
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Tripolitans floated the frigate, raised the guns, and the refitted ship lay under the guns of the forts when the "Intrepid", a small ketch, brought in by night about 75 men led by Lieutenant Decatur and a Sicilian pilot. The frigate was boarded and burnt, and the ketch escaped under fire of the harbor guns...
World To-Day--"In the Sicilian Hills." by R. Herrick '90; "Impressions of the Far East," by C. C. Hall h.'97: "Shorthand and Brains," by J. R. Slater '94; "Art in America," by W. M. R. French...