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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 60689

"Burning of the Philadelphia"


19th Century engraving, depicting the burning of USS USS Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor by a boarding party led by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, 16 February 1804.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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15 November 2002