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Show Hero's Heros Hero ' * . Burial PlaceI.n PlaceIn Place PlaceIn In I.n . 1818 Commodore Perry was sent sentwith WestIndies with a small squadron to tho the West Indies to protect American commerce against commerceagainst pirates He contracted yel low yellow fever and died on his thirty fourth birthday fourthbirthday , August 23 , 1819 1813 . , He was burled wasburled with military ml11tarJ honois hono18 honors Portof , ' at Port of dlrectlon dlrectIon direction Spain , Trinidad 'l'rln1dad lrln1dad ' ' , but In 182G 1826 , by dl di rectIon removed of congress , his body waa was re- re re- re re - - moved In the sloop of ot Lexingtonand ngtonand war Le Lexington ngton and stateof stateot re ra Interred at Newport . . The state ot of Rhode Rhoda Island erected a n monument to monumentto him . . |