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American naval biography / compiled by Isaac Bailey.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1815 Bai Gaa.62
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailey, Isaac, 1788-1824 49455
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Navy--Biography--82015.
- United States.
- United States--History--War of 1812--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- iv, [5]-257, [1] p. ; 19 cm. (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- Providence, R.I. : Published by Isaac Bailey . H. Mann ' Co. printers, 1815.
- Contents:
- Thomas Truxton
- Edward Preble
- Alexander Murray
- John Rodgers
- Isaac Hull
- Stephen Decatur
- Jacob Jones
- James Lawrence
- William Bainbridge
- John Barry
- Nicholas Biddle
- David Porter
- Charles Morris
- William Henry Allen
- Oliver H. Pery
- William Burrows
- John Cushing Aylwin
- Thomas MacDonough.
- Notes:
- Biographies of Decatur, Jones and Lawerence (the last by Washington Irving) had appeared with portraits in the Analectic magazine (Philadelphia) March-Dec. 1813 [n.s.] v. 1, no. 6; v.2, no. 7-8; those of Murray, Bainbridge, Barry and Burrows, with portraits, in the Port Folio (Philadelphia) July 1813-May 1814 [3d ser.] v.2, no. 1, 6; v.3, no. 2, 5.
- Signatures: A-W[superscript 6]X[superscript 4].
- Local Notes:
- Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker, 33904
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