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A compilation of biographical sketches of distinguished officers in the American Navy : with other interesting matter ... / by Benjamin Folsom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Folsom, Benjamin, 1790-1833.
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lake Erie, Battle of, 1813.
- United States--History--War of 1812--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Navy--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 p., [1] folded leaf of plates ) ill. ;
- Other Title:
- Compilation of biographical sketches of distinguished officers in the American Navy
- Place of Publication:
- Newburyport : Published by the compiler, and for sale at the Newburyport-bookstore ... and by various other booksellers in the United States, 1814 (Newburyport : Horatio G. Allen, Printer)
- 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.
- Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
- Sabin no. 24960.
- Cited in:
- RLIN, CTRG93-B1630
- OCLC:
- 85788255
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