🏟️ Tripoli Monument (sculpture)

The Tripoli Monument is the oldest military monument in the United States. It honors heroes of the United States Navy from the First Barbary War (1801–1805): Master Commandant Richard Somers, Lieutenant James Caldwell, James Decatur, Henry Wadsworth, Joseph Israel, and John Sword Dorsey. It was carved in Livorno, Italy, in 1806 and brought to the United States on board the famous 1797 frigate USS Constitution. It was originally installed in the Washington Navy Yard at the new national capital of Washington, D.C., in 1808. It was moved to the west front terrace of the United States Capitol facing the National Mall in 1831, and then to the United States Naval Academy campus in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1860.