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    • Author/Creator:Folsom, Benjamin, 1790-1833.
    • Title:A compilation of biographical sketches of distinguished officers in the American Navy: with other interesting matter ... / by Benjamin Folsom.
    • Published/Created: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.

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    • 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.
    • Format:Book
    • 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.
    • Subjects:United States. Navy--Biography.
      Lake Erie, Battle of, 1813.
      United States--History--War of 1812--Biography.
    • Also listed under:Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1208120