Actually, I know quite a bit about the Commodore, Rap. Particularly his service in the War of 1812- posible the most idiotic war the U.S. was ever inviolved in, barring Viet Nam and Iraq.

And that he was killed in a duel - that equally idiotic testosterone-poisoned American institution.-

What precisely is your point? That he was a "patriot" & that he's lionized as a "hero" by some and thus can have done or said no wrong?