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feb 16, 1804 - Lt. Stephen Decatur burns the captured U.S. frigate Philadelphia while docked in Tripoli harbour.

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Tripolitan gunboats had captured the frigate during the previous October. No one is killed.

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feb 16, 1804
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~ 221 years ago