Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr., commanding the USS United States, captures HMS Macedonian, commanded by Post-Captain John Surman Carden.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 71.
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