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[132] Her brave commander, Captain Lawrence, was killed. The contest was practically a sea duel in answer to a challenge. The British were greatly elated over their victory. Lawrence was born in 1781, at Burlington, N. J. He was engaged in the Barbary War, having command of the Argus, Vixen, and Wasp; while commanding the Hornet, in 1813, captured the British brig Peacock, with a loss of only one killed and two wounded; while commanding the Chesapeake, was defeated by the Shannon, in consequence of having a new and undisciplined crew; was mortally wounded, and gave as his last injunction, “Don’t give up the ship.”