On 16 February 1804, Decatur laid his command, the ketch Intrepid, alongside the captured frigate and, as Captain Edward Preble later wrote, “in a Gallant and Officer-like manner, boarded and carried her against all opposition…” Silence cloaked the bold American attack.
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