Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, on the petition of Captain Samuel C. Reid, accompanied with a bill authorizing a sum of money to distributed [sic] among the officers and crew of the late private armed brig the General Armstrong
Subtitle: March 4, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a committee of the whole House on Monday next
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 46524; House document (United States. Congress. House) -- 15th Congress, 1st session, no. 135
Publisher: Printed by E. De Krafft
Published: 1818
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: History; General Armstrong (Privateer)
Notes: Concerning the petitioner's prayer that Congress would bestow some reward upon the officer and crew of the private brig which resisted attacks by a British squadron in the Azores thereby delaying the British expedition against New Orleans.

At head of caption title: [135].

Edward De Krafft was printer to the House during the 1st session of the 15th Congress.

"To the honorable the Congress of the United States ... The memorial of Samuel C. Reid ...," p. 4-12, includes the letters from Reid and John B. Dabney, U.S. consul at Fayal, to the secretary of state, reporting the affair.

Shaw & Shoemaker 46524

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.