Decatur is a stud. I always thought they should make a major motion picture out of his part of Tripoli campaign. I've done quite a bit of reading about Theodore and more reading about the early U.S. Navy but I've never read his book on the U.S. Navy, seems like an over site. You got me poking around my library where I found Lords of the Lake: The Naval War on Lake Ontario, 1812-1814. I remember it being a good read. Maybe I'll crack it open but I got a pile of stuff that that I've not read that I intend too read ahead of it. I don't seem to get much reading done between work, family and the internet now a days. I've never thought about history writing. I've only taken two history classes in my life, Ancient Greece and Economics and neither involved much writing. Always a consumer, never a producer.