Stephen Decatur in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy aboard a Tripolitan gunboat during The First Barbary War. Stephen Decatur, Jr., 1779 – 1820. United States naval officer and commodore. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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