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Chapter 2 THE BIRTHPLACE OF ISRAEL.
Chapter 3 THE YOUTHFUL ADVENTURES OF ISRAEL.
Chapter 4 ISRAEL GOES TO THE WARS; AND REACHING BUNKER HILL IN TIME TO BE OF SERVICE THERE, SOON AFTER IS FORCED TO EXTEND HIS TRAVELS ACROSS THE SEA INTO THE ENEMY'S LAND.
Chapter 5 FURTHER WANDERINGS OF THE REFUGEE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A GOOD KNIGHT OF BRENTFORD WHO BEFRIENDED HIM.
Chapter 6 ISRAEL IN THE LION'S DEN.
Chapter 7 ISRAEL MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF CERTAIN SECRET FRIENDS OF AMERICA, ONE OF THEM BEING THE FAMOUS AUTHOR OF THE DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY, THESE DESPATCH HIM ON A SLY ERRAND ACROSS THE CHANNEL.
Chapter 8 AFTER A CURIOUS ADVENTURE UPON THE PONT NEUF, ISRAEL ENTERS THE PRESENCE OF THE RENOWNED SAGE, DR. FRANKLIN, WHOM HE FINDS RIGHT LEARNEDLY AND MULTIFARIOUSLY EMPLOYED.
Chapter 9 WHICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT DR. FRANKLIN AND THE LATIN QUARTER.
Chapter 10 ISRAEL IS INITIATED INTO THE MYSTERIES OF LODGING-HOUSES IN THE LATIN QUARTER.
Chapter 11 ANOTHER ADVENTURER APPEARS UPON THE SCENE.
Chapter 12 PAUL JONES IN A REVERIE.
Chapter 13 RECROSSING THE CHANNEL, ISRAEL RETURNS TO THE SQUIRE'S ABODE-HIS ADVENTURES THERE.
Chapter 14 HIS ESCAPE FROM THE HOUSE, WITH VARIOUS ADVENTURES FOLLOWING.
Chapter 15 IN WHICH ISRAEL IS SAILOR UNDER TWO FLAGS, AND IN THREE SHIPS, AND ALL IN ONE NIGHT.
Chapter 16 THEY SAIL AS FAR AS THE CRAG OF AILSA.
Chapter 17 THEY LOOK IN AT CARRICKFERGUS, AND DESCEND ON WHITEHAVEN.
Chapter 18 THEY CALL AT THE EARL OF SELKIRK'S, AND AFTERWARDS FIGHT THE SHIP-OF-WAR DRAKE.
Chapter 19 THE EXPEDITION THAT SAILED FROM GROIX.
Chapter 20 THEY FIGHT THE SERAPIS.
Chapter 21 THE SHUTTLE.
Chapter 22 SAMSON AMONG THE PHILISTINES.
Chapter 23 SOMETHING FURTHER OF ETHAN ALLEN; WITH ISRAEL'S FLIGHT TOWARDS THE WILDERNESS.
Chapter 24 ISRAEL IN EGYPT.
Chapter 25 CONTINUED.
Chapter 26 IN THE CITY OF DIS.
Chapter 27 FORTY-FIVE YEARS.
Chapter 28 REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
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Chapter 20 THEY FIGHT THE SERAPIS.

The battle between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis stands in history as the first signal collision on the sea between the Englishman and the American. For obstinacy, mutual hatred, and courage, it is without precedent or subsequent in the story of ocean. The strife long hung undetermined, but the English flag struck in the end.

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