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Stephen Decatur

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Noun1.Stephen Decatur - United States naval officer remembered for his heroic deeds (1779-1820)Stephen Decatur - United States naval officer remembered for his heroic deeds (1779-1820)
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Born amidst the upheaval of the American Revolution in 1779, Stephen Decatur spent his youth steeped in the twin influences of a national hubris born of victory against the tyrannical British Empire and a family tradition of seafaring, usually against that same entity (Dutch and French ancestry, and the master of a privateer as a father).
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