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A compilation of biographical sketches of distinguished officers in the American Navy: with other interesting matter ..
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A compilation of biographical sketches of distinguished officers in the American Navy: with other interesting matter ... / by Benjamin Folsom.
Published
Newburyport : Published by the compiler, and for sale at the Newburyport-bookstore , no. 13 Cornhill, and by various other booksellers in the United States : Horatio G. Allen, Printer ; 1814.
Physical Description
187 p., [1] p. fold front. ; 24 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Za Ir8 813C: Folded front. wanting.
Notes
The biographies of Hull, Decatur, Jones, Lawrence, Burrows and Perry (the last three by Washington Irving) had appeared with portraits in the Analectic magazine (Philadelphia) March-Dec. 1813 [n.s.] v. 1, no. 3, 6; v. 2, no. 7-8, 11-12. That of Hull is signed P. (i.e. James Kirke Paulding:) Those of Bainbridge, Allen and Murray, with portraits, appeared in the Port Folio (Philadelphia) Dec. 1813, Jan.-May 1814 [3rd ser.] v. 2, no.6; v. 3, no. 1, 5.
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English
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June 01, 2002
Contents
Memoirs of distinguished heroes in the American navy: Captain Isaac Hull, Captain Isaac Hull, Commodore Decatur, Captain Jacob Jones, Commander William Bainbridge, Captain James Lawrence, Commodore John Rodgers, Captain William Henry Allen, Lieut. William Burrows, Com. Oliver Huzard Perry, Com. Alexander Murray, Lieutenant John C. Aylwin, Liet. James M. Broom
Poetical notices
Obituary notices
Anecdotes of the battle on lake Erie
Comparitive strength of the different naval powers.
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