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Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: In the print recto, l.l. of image: Copyright 1898 / Edward Moran 1897 / l.c. below image: "THE MOST BOLD AND DARING ACT OF THE AGE." / Burning of the Frigate PHILADELPHIA-16 February 1803 / During the Barbary Wars, to deny the Tripolitan Corsairs the use of the PHILIDELPHIA which had run aground on an unchartered reef in Tripoli Harbour, Stephen Decateur and / a crew of 84 volunteers in the ketch INTREPID succeeded in boarding and firing the ship after a furious hand-to-hand struggle while under fire from coastal batteries. British / Admiral Lord Nelson, then operating in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic world wars admiringly called this, "The most bold and daring act of the age." / l.l.: OIL BY EDWARD MORAN; l.r.: U.S. Naval Academy Museum, This reproduction is after a work by artist Edward Moran.