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Excerpt from Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry: Convened on Board the United States Frigate the President, in the Harbour of New York, on the Thirteenth Day of August, 1811, Pursuant to the Following Warrant; To Stephen Decatur, Esquire, a Captain in the Navy of the United States
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