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| | Bringing Richard Somers Home |
 | | Buried by American prisoners from the captured frigate USS Philadelphia, Somers, two other officers Lt. Henry Wadsworth (Uncle of Longfellow), Charles Israel, and ten sailors and marines were laid to rest a few hundred yards east of the old Bashaw’s castle, now a museum. |
 | | Instead, the remains of Lt. Richard Somers and the 12 man crew of the USS Intrepid are buried in a small park near Tripoli harbor where they died on September 4, 1804. |
 | | Mustafa Burchis, harbormaster of Tripoli, undertakes a meticulous examination of the old Jewish records, private Arab collections of letters, papers and diaries, and interviews innumerable descendants of residents of Tripoli at the time of the disaster, and completes a report of the matter that is transmitted to the US Embassy Rome. |
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