Commodore Stephen Decatur

Stephen Decatur (1779-1820) joined the Navy as a midshipman in 1798. He gained early fame in the Tripolitan War in February 1804 when he led a covert expedition into Tripoli Harbor to destroy the captured U.S.S. Philadelphia.
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