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Barney, Joshua, 1759-
Naval officer; born in Baltimore, Md., July 6, 1759.
Inclined to a seafaring life, he went to sea in his early youth: and when he was only sixteen years of age, an accident caused the care of his ship to devolve upon him. He met the exigency with courage and skill.
He entered the Continental navy, at its first organization in 1775, as master's mate, in the sloop Hornet, and joined Commodore Hopkins.
In an action between the Continental schooner Wasp and British brig Tender, in Delaware Bay, before he was seventeen years of age, his conduct was so gallant that he was made a lieutenant.
In that capacity he served in the Sachem (Capt. I. Robinson), and after a severe action with a British brig, in which his commander was wounded, young Barney brought her into port.
Soon afterwards he was made a prisoner, but was speedily released, and in the Andrea Doria he was engaged in the defence of the Delaware River in 1777.
He was again made prisoner, and was exchan
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boscawen , Edward 1711 - (search)
Boscawen, Edward, 1711-
Naval officer; born in Cornwall, England, Aug. 19, 1711; son of Viscount Falmouth; was made a captain in the royal navy in March, 1737.
Distinguished at Porto Bello and Carthagena, he was promoted to the command of a 60-gun ship in 1744, in which he took the Media.
He signalized himself under Anson in the battle off Cape Finisterre in 1747, and against the French in the East Indies as rear-admiral the next year.
He made himself master of Madras, and returned to England in 1751. Admiral of the Blue, he commanded an expedition against Louisburg, Cape Breton, in 1758, with General Amherst.
In 1759 he defeated the French fleet in the Mediterranean, capturing 2,000 prisoners. For these services he was made general of the marines and member of the privy council.
Parliament also granted him a pension of $15,000 a year.
He died Jan. 10, 1761.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bradstreet , John 1711 -1774 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burke , Edmund 1730 -1797 (search)
Burke, Edmund, 1730-1797
Statesman; born in Dublin, June 1, 1730; was one of fifteen children of Richard Burke, an attorney, and was descended from the Norman De Burghs, who early settled in Ireland; graduated at Trinity College, Dublin (1748); studied law, and in 1756 published his famous essay on The sublime and beautiful.
In 1758-59 he and Dodsley established the Annual Registor; and in 1765 he was made secretary to Premier Rockingham.
He entered Parliament in 1766.
There he took an active and brilliant part in debates on the American question, and always in favor of the Americans.
advocating their cause with rare eloquence.
In 1771 he was appointed agent for the colony of New York.
He lost some popularity by advocating the claims of the Roman Catholics in 1780, and opposing the policy of repressing the trade of Ireland.
During the brief administration of the Rockingham ministry in 1782, he was a member of the privy council and paymaster of the forces.
Taking a prominen
Caldwell, James 1734-
Clergyman; born in Charlotte county, Va., in April, 1734.
Graduating at Princeton in 1759, he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Elizabethtown in 1762.
Zealously espousing the revolutionary cause, he was much disliked by the Tories.
Appointed chaplain of a New Jersey brigade, he was for a time in the Mohawk Valley.
In 1780 his church and residence were burned by a party of British and Tories; and the same year a British incursion from Staten Island pillaged the village of Connecticut Farms, where his family were temporarily residing.
A soldier shot his wife through a window while she was sitting on a bed with her babe.
At that time Mr. Caldwell was in Washington's camp at Morristown.
In the successful defence of Springfield, N. J., June 23, 1780, when the wadding for the soldiers' guns gave out, he brought the hymn-books from the neighboring church and shouted, Now put Watts into them, boys.
In an altercation at Elizabethtown Point with an Am
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Carleton , Sir Guy , Lord Dorchester 1724 - (search)
Carleton, Sir Guy, Lord Dorchester 1724-
civil and military officer; born in Stra-
Guy Carleton. bane, Ireland, Sept. 3, 1724; entered the Guards at an early age, and became a lieutenant-colonel in 1748.
He was aide to the Duke of Cumberland in the German campaign of 1757; was with Amherst in the siege of Louisburg in 1758; with Wolfe at Quebec (1759) as quartermaster-general; and was a brigadier-general at the siege of Belle Isle, where he was wounded.
He was also quartermaster-general in the expedition against Havana in 1762, and in 1767 he was made lieutenant-governor of Quebec.
The next year he was appointed governor.
In 1772 he was promoted to major-general, and in 1774 was made governor-general of the Province of Quebec.
In an expedition against the forts on Lake Champlain in 1775 he narrowly escaped capture; and at the close of the year he successfully resisted a siege of Quebec by Montgomery.
The next spring and summer he drove the Americans out of Canada, and tot
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Choiseul , ÉTienne Francois , Duc De 1785 (search)
Choiseul, ÉTienne Francois, Duc De -1785
French statesman; born June 28, 1719; became a lieutenant-general in the army in 1759; and was at the head of the French ministry when, in 1761, cabinet changes in England threatened to diminish the power of that government.
He was minister of foreign affairs, and in January, 1761, became minister of war, and annexed those departments to the marine.
Like Pitt, he was a statesman of consummate ability.
He was of high rank and very wealthy, and was virtually sole minister of France.
When the British had despoiled France of her American possessions Choiseul eagerly watched for an opportunity to inflict a retaliatory blow; and he was delighted when he perceived that a rising quarrel between Great Britain and her American colonies foreshadowed a dismemberment of the British Empire.
Choiseul determined to foster the quarrel as far as possible.
He sent the Baron de Kalb to America in the disguise of a traveller, but really as a French emi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coffin , Sir Isaac 1759 -1839 (search)
Coffin, Sir Isaac 1759-1839
Naval officer; born in Boston, May 16, 1759; was the son of a collector of the customs in Boston, who was a zealous loyalist.
He entered the British navy in 1773, became a lieutenant in 1776, and was active on the American coast at different times during the war for independence.
He served under Rodney, was made post-captain in 1790, and rear-admiral of the blue in 1804, in which year he was knighted.
In June, 1814, he was created admiral of the blue, and in 1820 admiral of the white.
He was a member of Parliament in 1818. Having a real attachment for his native country, he endowed a Coffin School in Nantucket, where many of his relatives lived, and gave for its support $12,500. He died in Cheltenham, England, July 23, 1839.