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Stephen Decatur (1779-1820) U.S. naval officer and hero, killed in a duel. On Feb. 16, 1804, with a small party, he burned the frigate Philadelphia, which had been captured by the Tripolitans. Admiral Nelson pronounced this act "the most daring of the age,"
Rossiter Johnson, ed. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans (Boston: Biographical Society, 1904) alphabetical list.
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