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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). Search the whole document.
Found 31 total hits in 18 results.
1760 AD (search for this): entry whipple-abraham
Whipple, Abraham 1733-
Naval officer; born in Providence, R. I., Sept. 16, 1733; went to sea in early life; commanded a ship in the West India trade, and in 1759-60 was captain of a privateer, capturing in a single cruise twenty-six French vessels.
His vessel was called the Game Cock.
In June, 1772, Whipple commanded the volunteers who burned the Gaspee in Narraganset Bay.
In 1775 he was put in command of two armed vessels fitted out by Rhode Island, and was given the title of commodore.
With these he drove Sir James Wallace, in command of the frigate Rose, out of Narraganset Bay.
He was in command of a flotilla in the harbor of Charleston at the time of the siege and capture of that city in 1780.
On March 21 of that year, the British marine force, under Admiral Arbuthnot, crossed the bar at Charleston.
It consisted of one 54-gun ship, two 44-gun ships, four of thirty-two guns, and the Sandwich, also an armed ship.
Whipple was in the outer harbor with a flotilla of small
1759 AD (search for this): entry whipple-abraham
Whipple, Abraham 1733-
Naval officer; born in Providence, R. I., Sept. 16, 1733; went to sea in early life; commanded a ship in the West India trade, and in 1759-60 was captain of a privateer, capturing in a single cruise twenty-six French vessels.
His vessel was called the Game Cock.
In June, 1772, Whipple commanded the volunteers who burned the Gaspee in Narraganset Bay.
In 1775 he was put in command of two armed vessels fitted out by Rhode Island, and was given the title of commodore.
With these he drove Sir James Wallace, in command of the frigate Rose, out of Narraganset Bay.
He was in command of a flotilla in the harbor of Charleston at the time of the siege and capture of that city in 1780.
On March 21 of that year, the British marine force, under Admiral Arbuthnot, crossed the bar at Charleston.
It consisted of one 54-gun ship, two 44-gun ships, four of thirty-two guns, and the Sandwich, also an armed ship.
Whipple was in the outer harbor with a flotilla of small
March 21st (search for this): entry whipple-abraham
June, 1772 AD (search for this): entry whipple-abraham
Whipple, Abraham 1733-
Naval officer; born in Providence, R. I., Sept. 16, 1733; went to sea in early life; commanded a ship in the West India trade, and in 1759-60 was captain of a privateer, capturing in a single cruise twenty-six French vessels.
His vessel was called the Game Cock.
In June, 1772, Whipple commanded the volunteers who burned the Gaspee in Narraganset Bay.
In 1775 he was put in command of two armed vessels fitted out by Rhode Island, and was given the title of commodore.
With these he drove Sir James Wallace, in command of the frigate Rose, out of Narraganset Bay.
He was in command of a flotilla in the harbor of Charleston at the time of the siege and capture of that city in 1780.
On March 21 of that year, the British marine force, under Admiral Arbuthnot, crossed the bar at Charleston.
It consisted of one 54-gun ship, two 44-gun ships, four of thirty-two guns, and the Sandwich, also an armed ship.
Whipple was in the outer harbor with a flotilla of small
May 29th, 1819 AD (search for this): entry whipple-abraham
1733 AD (search for this): entry whipple-abraham
Whipple, Abraham 1733-
Naval officer; born in Providence, R. I., Sept. 16, 1733; went to sea in early life; commanded a ship in the West India trade, and in 1759-60 was captain of a privateer, capturing in a single cruise twenty-six French vessels.
His vessel was called the Game Cock.
In June, 1772, Whipple commanded the volunteers who burned the Gaspee in Narraganset Bay.
In 1775 he was put in command of two armed vessels fitted out by Rhode Island, and was given the title of commodore.
With these he drove Sir James Wallace, in command of the frigate Rose, out of Narraganset Bay.
He was in command of a flotilla in the harbor of Charleston at the time of the siege and capture of that city in 1780.
On March 21 of that year, the British marine force, under Admiral Arbuthnot, crossed the bar at Charleston.
It consisted of one 54-gun ship, two 44-gun ships, four of thirty-two guns, and the Sandwich, also an armed ship.
Whipple was in the outer harbor with a flotilla of small
1780 AD (search for this): entry whipple-abraham
September 16th, 1733 AD (search for this): entry whipple-abraham
Whipple, Abraham 1733-
Naval officer; born in Providence, R. I., Sept. 16, 1733; went to sea in early life; commanded a ship in the West India trade, and in 1759-60 was captain of a privateer, capturing in a single cruise twenty-six French vessels.
His vessel was called the Game Cock.
In June, 1772, Whipple commanded the volunteers who burned the Gaspee in Narraganset Bay.
In 1775 he was put in command of two armed vessels fitted out by Rhode Island, and was given the title of commodore.
With these he drove Sir James Wallace, in command of the frigate Rose, out of Narraganset Bay.
He was in command of a flotilla in the harbor of Charleston at the time of the siege and capture of that city in 1780.
On March 21 of that year, the British marine force, under Admiral Arbuthnot, crossed the bar at Charleston.
It consisted of one 54-gun ship, two 44-gun ships, four of thirty-two guns, and the Sandwich, also an armed ship.
Whipple was in the outer harbor with a flotilla of small