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Show GLORIOUS PAGE IN HISTORY , . ., .i When Commotfort Otcatur, With a Few Ameriean Shlpi, Put End to Ransom Paid" Algiers. Coi.nuiirfJuie .Stephen Decatur, with a ttnall stmadruu of Amerlcnu ahlpK, lliH'vro'BiwutU did more than nil tba purrer at Europe darfd to do lu thr tedlteiranean tea. He tfefta the W.t if Alclers, defeated his armUw, a ad lllierated ttie United 8tte.rfo the 'tiPtkl ot pay to omtftl tribute t that pirate, bo had the habit of. ;HixIb -Aftwlcan jealaet. eiwl mUIS( ftrut. uavyaftfitjfllmt'un tfit thu ,in4ey.tMtcavt4f4 W Arleai v-uUaurtimadewaWwfjW v-uUaurtimadewaWwfjW e and u, nud.tUr gMVrBwet halt pa la" 11,600,000 for ihMf raiiMU. The i-1 larumial nlbute beau lu 175 vTul TeDUiJag..tb prtrleia raaieta aieaeya 1 uak)i'nly when iw were cptoridi In 1800 Captsta ftallibll(l;ioh lrlbut to Alitr.n. Wbru lit w IMV- I tojc lh bey ordered Mm t Uk au At-K!Han At-K!Han auibaamdor to Couitanilnople. rt'ln lie irflim-d Hie tirv told lilui lliat wnen ue rerasen me oey ioiu uim nmt tte Aturrlcaui psld liliu irlbula audi .tberffure wr. hl, (;,. and oried lilm to obey. I.Htft- wlille (,hai(iut, .', cor?jlr pirate Inro Alylers his sh.p, I the I'hlladelphiii, strtirk a rook and Ctiptulu Helnbrldkiu and Ills men v,ci espluted ami mude lnet. He wrote HtJvlslnR Hint hi; ship be wrecked, its the Alcerliins ueit ilftiuiliit; to repair It. Lleuli'iiHiit Ot'iiitur v.iih ghen the titl of burning it mill tjtiunkvd up Inside In-side It. wltb n miiuII cii'kv, In h kettli 11 "liuill inert limit enSfl, He sueceod ed in merpoworln, the Aleerlnn crew, set tire In the l'lillmlelphlu nnd Inn ncd It 10 the water's edge. IIu revelled tin- llmnl.H of t'linifiesi a sword mid 11 piun iitlnn fur his deed. In Mny, 1815, lie win 1 oimimdoro mid was oent buU( to 1 lie .Mvdlterriineiin at the lieml of a sniiill licet thut not only voiKiucied the tilintvH. but foiled pigment of $10,000 from (he bafclmw ut Tunis for iiIIowIiik Ihe llrltlsh to ciiiduie ihlps In that Inn hor, mill 52,000 from the boy at Tripoli for ilnimice n Anicilimis' propei ty. Ho nlifti obtulned the re leabe of all Auicikaii prisoners |