biography
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Morris, Richard (Valentine)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1768–1815)
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| biography:
| US naval officer, born at Morrisania, New York, USA. He commanded the Tripoli Squadron (1802–3). A court of inquiry found, somewhat unjustly, that he had been insufficiently diligent in his duty and he was dismissed from the navy (1804). |
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