Commodore George C. Read, of the Navy of the united States, commanding the USS Columbia and assisted by the USS John Adams lands Marines on the island of Sumatra (Dutch East Indies/Indonesia), and orders them to exact retribution on the pirate towns of Quallah Battoo and Muckie for plundering American merchant vessels.
[added 1/14/2022] Thanks to Jim Lorenz for this entry.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 114.
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