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2 unusual facts about Lewis Heermann


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Lewis Heermann, (1779–1833), German, commissioned Surgeon's Mate in the United States Navy in 1802

Lewis Heermann

On 16 February 1804, during the War with the Barbary States, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur left Heermann in command of the bomb ketch Intrepid while he and a fearless band of American seamen boarded the captured frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli Harbor, swept her Barbary captors' crew overboard, and set the frigate ablaze.



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