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Two-thirds of the crew were down but still they refused to surrender, and Captain Diron had to pull down the colors with his own hands. Better discipline and marksmanship had won the day for him and his losses were comparatively small. Men of his description were apt to think first of glory and let the profits go hang, for there was no cargo to be looted in a King's ship.
Every schoolboy is familiar with the duels of the Wasp and the Frolic, of the Enterprise and the Boxer; but how many people know what happened when the privateer Decatur met and whipped the Dominica of the British Navy to the southward of Bermuda? Captain Diron was the man who did it as he was cruising out of Charleston, South Carolina, in the summer of 1813.
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