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On the recordDecember 4, 1803
And to these I add what was indeed transacted in another quarter--the gallant enterprise of Captain Rodgers in destroying on the coast of Tripoli a corvette of that power of 22 guns.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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