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Stephen Decatur

NOUN
  1. United States naval officer remembered for his heroic deeds (1779-1820)

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  • It was a wooden figurehead carved in the shape of an embowed, cheerfully grinning dolphin—worn, wormholed, its paint flaking with age; the original figurehead of the schooner Enterprise, that Stephen Decatur sailed against the Barbary pirates at Tripoli, four hundred years before. THE WOUNDED SKY
  • In July 1798, Stephen Decatur, on the sloop Delaware, captured the French schooner Croyable off New Jersey.
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