A compilation of biographical sketches of distinguished officers in the American Navy
Subtitle: with other interesting matter ...
By: by Benjamin Folsom
Contributors: Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 11370-11372
Publisher: Published by the compiler, ... and by various other booksellers in the United States
Published: 1814
Place of publication: Newburyport [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: United States. -- Navy -- Biography; Lake Erie, Battle of, 1813; United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Biography
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 [3d ser.] v. 2, no. 6; v. 3, no. 1, 5

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Microfiche. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 1993. 3 microfiches : negative. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time ; 11370-11372)
Table of contents: value: Memoirs of distinguished heroes in the American navy. Captain Isaac Hull, Commodore Decatur, Captain Jacob Jones, Com. William Bainbridge, Captain James Lawrence, Commodore John Rodgers, Captain William Henry Allen, Lieut. William Burrows, Com. Oliver Hazard Perry, Com. Alexander Murray, Lieutenant John C. Aylwin, Lieut. James M. Broom; value: Poetical notices; value: Obituary notices; value: Anecdotes of the battle on lake Erie; value: Comparative strength of the different naval powers