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See also:HOPKINS, ESEK (1718-18oz) , the first See also:admiral of the See also:United States See also:navy, was See also:born at Scituate, Rhode See also:Island, in 1718. He belonged to one of the most prominent Puritan families of New See also:England. At the See also:age of twenty he went to See also:sea, and rapidly came to the front as a See also:good sailor and skilful trader. Marrying, three years later, into a prosperous See also:family of See also:Newport, and thus increasing his See also:influence in Rhode Island, he became See also:commodore of a See also:fleet of seventeen merchantmen, the movements of which he directed with skill and See also:energy. In See also:war as well as See also:peace, Hopkins was establishing his reputation as one of the leading colonial See also:seamen, for as See also:captain of a See also:privateer he made more than one brilliant and successful venture during the Seven Years' War. in the See also:interval between voyages, moreover, he was engaged in Rhode Island politics, and rendered efficient support to his See also:brother See also:Stephen against the See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward See also:faction. At the outbreak of the War of See also:Independence, Hopkins was appointed brigadier-See also:general by Rhode Island, was commissioned, See also:December 1775, by the See also:Continental See also:Congress, See also:commander-in-See also:chief of the navy, and in See also:January 1776 hoisted his See also:flag as admiral of the eight converted merchantmen which then constituted the navy of the United States. His first cruise resulted in a See also:great acquisition of material of war and an indecisive fight with H.M.S. " See also:Glasgow." At first this created great See also:enthusiasm, but See also:criticism soon made itself heard. Hopkins and two of his captains were tried for See also:breach of orders, and, though ably defended by See also:John See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams, were censured by Congress. The commands, nevertheless, were not interfered with, and a See also:prize was soon afterwards named after the admiral by their orders. But the difficulties and mutual distrust continually increased, and in 1777 Congress summarily dismissed Hopkins from his command, on the complaint of some of his See also:officers. Before the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order arrived, the admiral had detected the See also:conspiracy against him, and had had the ringleaders tried and degraded by See also:court-See also:martial. But the Congress followed up its order by dismissing him from the navy. For the See also:rest of his See also:life he lived in Rhode Island, playing a prominent See also:part in See also:state politics, and he died at See also:Providence in 1802.
See See also:Edward See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field, Life of Esek Hopkins (Providence, 1898) ; also an See also:article by R. Grieve in the New England See also:Magazine of See also:November 1897.
End of Article: HOPKINS, ESEK (1718-18oz)
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