In partnership with the Lexington Veterans' Assocation.

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Presented by Carl Herzog, Public Historian, USS Constitution Museum. The USS Constitution’s original mission in 1794 was to protect American merchant ships in the Mediterranean from the Barbary pirates of North Africa. By the time she was launched, however, the threat to American trade had shifted to the Caribbean, where French privateers were seizing American merchants. Before becoming known as "Old Ironsides", Constitution spent a tumultuous decade participating in conflicts on both sides of the Atlantic to protect America's rapidly growing global trade -- a Navy role that continues through today.

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