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Captain Richard Somers, Lieutenant James Caldwell, James Decatur, Henry Wadsworth, Joseph Israel, and John Dorsey fell in the difficult attacks made on the city of Tripoli in 1804, during the twenty-eighth year of the independence of the United States. Their love of glory inspired them, fame crowned their deeds, history recorded the event, the children of Columbia admired them, and commerce lamented their fall. Their brother officers erected a monument as a small tribute of respect to their memory and admiration of their valor, worthy of imitation.
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Naval Academy, Maryland · United States
