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Commodore Stephen Decatur

Caption: Commodore Stephen Decatur
Additional Description: Commodore Stephen Decatur rose to fame as a hero of the Barbary Wars. Decatur's naval campaigns in the Mediterranean both before and after the War of 1812 led to the end of a long-standing international practice of paying tribute to the pirate states of Barbary. Library of Congress photo, LC-DIG-npcc-19686.
Submitted: January 29, 2008, by F. Robby of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p15012
File Size: 0.073 Megabytes

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