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1. In 1834, after a figurehead of reviled President Andrew Jackson was added to the USS Constitution, a young Captain Samuel Worthington Dewey rowed out under cover of night and sawed off the top of his head.
2. This conspicuous act of incivility made the dashing young Dewey (shown in a painting commissioned by an admirer) something of a folk hero. He went to Washington to return the head to its model. Jackson was indisposed, so he handed it back to an astonished Van Buren.
3. The whole story is wild, and you can read more here. (ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2015/07/02/off…) But I have to share this with you because I just saw Dewey’s personal seal, riffing off Caesar: I came, I saw, I conquered.

I can’t get over how great this is.
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