Stephen Decatur

Stephen Decatur Jr. (/dɪˈkeɪtər/; 5 Januari 1779 – 22 Maret 1820) adalah seorang perwira dan komodor angkatan laut Amerika Serikat. Ia dilahirkan di pantai timur Maryland di County Worcester, putra dari seorang perwira angkatan laut AS yang bertugas selama Revolusi Amerika. Ayahnya, Stephen Decatur Sr., adalah seorang komodor pada Angkatan Laut AS, dan membawa Stephen muda ke dunia kapal dan berlayar sejak dini. Tak lama setelah kuliah, Decatur mengikuti jejak ayahnya dan bergabung dengan Angkatan Laut AS pada usia ke-19 sebagai seorang perwira muda.

Stephen Decatur

Biografi
Kelahiran	5 Januari 1779 Berlin
Kematian	22 Maret 1820 (41 tahun) Bladensburg (en)
Tempat pemakaman	St. Peter's Churchyard (en) Galat: Kedua parameter tahun harus terisi!
Data pribadi
Pendidikan	Woodbury Junior-Senior High School (en)
Kegiatan
Pekerjaan	perwira militer
Periode aktif	1798  –  22 Maret 1820
Cabang militer	Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat
Pangkat militer	commodore (en)
Komando	USS Constitution
Konflik	Perang Barbaria Pertama
Keluarga
Pasangan nikah	Susan Wheeler Decatur (en)
Ayah	Stephen Decatur, Sr. (mul)
Penghargaan  Congressional Gold Medal (en)
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Lihat pula

• Komandan angkatan laut lainnya yang terkenal saat itu:
  • John Paul Jones
  • Komodor John Barry
  • Komodor John Hazelwood
  • Laksamana David Farragut
  • Laksamana Richard Howe
  • Laksamana Horatio Nelson
  • Oliver Hazard Perry

Daftar pustaka

• Abbot, Willis John (1886). The Naval History of the United States. Peter Fenelon Collier, New York.  Book
• Allen, Gardner Weld (1905). Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs. Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston, New York & Chicago. hlm. 354.  E'book
• —— (1909). Our Naval War with France. Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston, New York and Chicago. hlm. 323.  E'book
• Allison, Robert J. (2005). Stephen Decatur American Naval Hero, 1779–1820. University of Massachusetts Press. hlm. 253. ISBN 1-55849-492-8.  Book
• Barnes, James (1906). Yankee ships and Yankee sailors: tales of 1812. Macmillan, London. hlm. 281.  E'book
• Borneman, Walter R. (2004). 1812: The War that Forged a Nation. New York: Harper Collins. hlm. 349. ISBN 0-06-053112-6. Book
• Bradford, James C. (1955). Quarterdeck and Bridge: Two Centuries of American Naval Leaders. Naval Institute Press. hlm. 263. ISBN 1-55750-073-8. Book
• Brady, Cyrus Townsend (1900). Stephen Decatur. Small, Maynard & Company, (original, Harvard Univ.). hlm. 142. Book, E'book (text)
• —— (2006). Stephen Decatur. Kessinger Publishing (reprint). hlm. 168. ISBN 1428603115.  Book
• Canney, Donald L. (2001). Sailing Warships of the US Navy. Chatham Publishing / Naval Institute Press. hlm. 224. ISBN 1-55750-990-5. Book
• Cooper, James Fenimore (1856). History of the Navy of the United States of America. New York: Stringer & Townsend. hlm. 508. OCLC 197401914. E'book
• —— (1846). Lives of distinguished American naval officers.
  Carey and Hart, Philadelphia. hlm. 436. OCLC 620356.  Book1 Book2
• Daughan, George C. Daughan (2011). 1812: The Navy's War. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-4650-2046-1. 
• Guttridge, Leonard F. (2005). Our Country, Right Or Wrong: The Life of Stephen Decatur. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC. hlm. 304. ISBN 978-0-7653-0702-6.  Book
• Hagan, Kenneth J. (1992). This People's Navy: The Making of American Sea Power. New York: The Free Press. hlm. 468. ISBN 0-02-913471-4. Book
• Hale, Edward Everett (1896). Illustrious Americans, Their Lives and Great Achievements. International Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA., and Chicago, ILL. ISBN 978-1-162-22702-3.  Book1, Book2
• Harris, Gardner W. (1837). The Life and Services of Commodore William Bainbridge, United States Navy. New York: Carey Lea & Blanchard. hlm. 254.  E'book
• Hickey, Donald R. (1989). The War of 1812, A Forgotten Conflict. Chicago and Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-01613-0.  Book
• Hill, Frederic Stanhope (1905). Twenty-six Historic Ships. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. hlm. 515.  Book
• Hollis, Ira N. (1900). The Frigate Constitution the Central Figure of the Navy Under Sail. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York; The Riverside Press, Cambridge. hlm. 455.  Book
• Lambert, Andrew (2012). The Challenge. Britain against America in the Naval War of 1812. Faber and Faber, London. 
• Leiner, Frederic C. (2007). The End of Barbary Terror, America's 1815 War Against the Pirates of North Africa. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-532540-9.  Book Diarsipkan 2012-10-19 di Wayback Machine.
• Lewis, Charles Lee (1924). Famous American Naval Officers. L.C.Page & Company, Inc. hlm. 444. ISBN 0-8369-2170-4.  Book
• —— (1937). The Romantic Decatur. Ayer Publishing. hlm. 296. ISBN 0-8369-5898-5.  Book
• Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service (2010). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. ISBN 9780486472881. 
• Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell (1846). Life of Stephen Decatur: A Commodore in the Navy of the United States. C. C. Little and J. Brown. hlm. 443.  Book
• Macdonough, Rodney (1909). Life of Commodore Thomas Macdonough, U.S. Navy. Boston, MA: The Fort Hill Press. hlm. 303.  Book
• Maclay, Edgar Stanton (1894). A History of the United States Navy, from 1775 to 1893. New York: D. Appleton & Company. hlm. 647.  Book
• "Commodore Stephen Decatur and the War on Algiers". Naval History & Heritage, U.S. Naval Institute. Diakses tanggal September 26, 2013. 
• "US Navy Officers: 1798–1900". Naval Historical Center, Washington DC. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal September 27, 2013. Diakses tanggal September 26, 2013. 
• Roosevelt, Theodore (1883). The Naval War of 1812. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. hlm. 541.  Book
• Seawell, Molly Elliot (1908). Decatur and Somers. D.Appleton and Company, New York. hlm. 178.  Book
• Shaler, William; American Consul General at Algiers (1826). Sketches of Algiers. Cummings, Hillard and Company, Boston. hlm. 296.  Book
• Smith, Charles Henry (1900). Stephen Decatur and the suppression of piracy in the Mediterranean: An address at a meeting of the Connecticut society of the Order of the founders and patriots of America, April 19, A.D. 1900. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven. hlm. 38.  Book
• Symonds, Craig L.; Clipson, William J. (2001). The Naval Institute Historical Atlas of the U.S. Navy. Naval Institute Press. hlm. 1101. ISBN 978-1-55750-984-0.  Book
• Toll, Ian W. (2006). Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. hlm. 592. ISBN 978-0-393-05847-5.  Book
• Tucker, Spencer (2004). Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold and Daring. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. hlm. 245. ISBN 1-55750-999-9. Book
• —— (2012). The Encyclopedia Of the War Of 1812.
  ABC-CLIO. hlm. 1034.  Book
• Waldo, Samuel Putnam (1821). The Life and Character of Stephen Decatur. P. B. Goodsell, Hartford, Conn. hlm. 312. , E'book
• Whipple, Addison Beecher Colvin (2001). To the Shores of Tripoli: The Birth of the U.S. Navy and Marines. Naval Institute Press. hlm. 357. Book

Bacaan lanjutan

• Anthony, Irvin, (1931). Decatur, Charles Scribner & Sons, New York, p. 319, Book (snippit view)
• Decatur, Stephen; Barron, James (1820). Correspondence Between the Late Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Baron. Boston: Russell & Gardner. hlm. 22. 
• De Kay, James T. De Kay, (2004), A Rage for Glory: The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN, Simon and Schuster, New York p. 297, ISBN 9780743242455, Book (par view)
• Lardas, Mark. Decatur's Bold and Daring Act, The 'Philadelphia' in Tripoli 1804. Osprey Raid Series #22. Osprey Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-1-84908-374-4, Book (par view)
• London, Joshua E. (2005).Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-471-44415-4.
• Lossing, Benson John (1869), The Pictorial Field-book of the War of 1812: Or, Illustrations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the Last War for American Independence, Harper & Brothers, New York, p. 1054, Url
• Lowe, Corinne. Knight of the Sea: The Story of Stephen Decatur. Harcourt, Brace. 1941.
• James, William, (1847/1859), The naval history of Great Britain...Volume 5, Richard Bentley, London, pp. 458, Ebook (full view)
• ——(1837) The naval history of Great Britain...Volume 6, Richard Bentley, London, p. 468, Ebook (full view)
• Miller, Nathan. The US Navy: An Illustrated History. New York: American Heritage, 1977.
• Oren, Michael B. Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. ISBN 0-393-05826-3.
• Randall, William Sterne (2017). Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-2501-1184-5. 
• Smethurst, David (2009) Tripoli: The United States' First War on Terror (Google eBook), Random House LLC, p. 320, ISBN 9780307548283, Book (par view)
• Zacks, Richard, (2005). The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805, Hyperion, p. 448, ISBN 9781401383114, Book (no view)

Pranala luar

• The Stephen Decatur House Museum: Washington, DC Diarsipkan 2008-04-09 di Wayback Machine.
• Decatur House: A Home of the Rich and Powerful: National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan
• Karya Stephen Decatur di Project Gutenberg
• Karya oleh/tentang Stephen Decatur di Internet Archive (pencarian dioptimalkan untuk situs non-Beta)
• Correspondence, between the late Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron which led to the unfortunate meeting of the twenty-second of March
• (Inggris) Stephen Decatur di Find a Grave