The man of the sea
How would you feel if you had the job of your dreams but lost one of your best friends because of it? This paper is on a man whose life was just like that. His name was Stephen Decatur jr. and he was born on Jan 5, 1779 at Sinepuxent, Md. Stephen decatur jr. studied at Episcopal Academy and also at the university of Pennsylvania after briefly working in philadelphia. He then accepted a midshipman's commision at the outset of the naval war with france. Afterwards he was then promoted to lieutenant acceptionaly quickly in the navy. In advance because of Decatur’s death, he changed the way the navy recruits and performs naval missions today.
Decatur was the son of a U.S. naval officer who served in the American Revolution. Following in his father's footsteps he attended college and joined the navy at the age of nineteen. Stephen supervised the construction of several naval ships one which he commanded. Decatur was also the youngest man in…show more content… When the U.S. Was blocked in new London, Conn, in 1814, he and his men were transferred to the president In a storm on Jan 14, 1815, the president tried to run the blockade but was grounded on a sandbar. Navy officer Stephen Decatur, hero of the Barbary wars, is mortally wounded in a duel with disgraced navy commodore James Barron at Bladensburg, Maryland. Once friends Decatur sat on the court-martial that suspended him from the navy for 5 years and opposed his reinstatement that lead to the hate quarrel. In 1807, Commodore James Barron aroused considerable controversy when he failed to resist a british attack on his ship, This began the 13 year rivalry. On March 22, Decatur and Barron lifted their guns and fired at each other. Each man hit is target but Decatur died in Washington a few hours later. Barron recovered and was reinstated but lost his
