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It was 1803 and Stephen Decatur was in the Navy. He was on a ship that was in Europe. Stephen was the commander of a small ship. It was named the Enterprise. On

Hortatio Nelson, himself one of naval history's boldest actors, called the burning of the frigate Philadelphia by the United States Navy in 1804 "the most bold

On a dark night in 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur and a team of hand-picked men, slipped into Tripoli harbor in a small boat. Their target was the USS Philadelphia.