Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Jr. commanding the USS Intrepid, burns the former USS Philadelphia, as it was moored in the harbor of Tripoli, Tripolantia. The Philadelphia had been captured by the Barbary Pirates.
[restored 11/12/2021]
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 61.
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