Title: Warship under sail
Subtitle: the USS Decatur in the Pacific West
Description: A social history of the nineteenth-century sloop of war "Decatur," that illuminates American expansionism in the antebellum Pacific Northwest.
Subjects: History, Seafaring life, Naval History, Decatur (Sloop of war), United States, Territorial expansion, United States. Navy, United states, navy, history, Northwest, pacific, history, Pacific area, history, Pacific coast, United states, territorial expansion
Places: Pacific Northwest, Pacific Area, Pacific Coast (Latin America), United States
Time periods: 19th century