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See also:TRUXTUN, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1755-1822) , See also:American See also:naval officer, was See also:born at See also:Jamaica, See also:Long See also:Island, on the 17th of See also:February 1755. He went See also:young to See also:sea, and during the See also:War of See also:Independence was first persuaded to serve in a royal See also:ship. But having been wounded in an See also:action with a See also:privateer manned by his countrymen, it is said that he declared he would never fight them again. Henceforth he commanded a See also:succession of privateers sent out to cruise against See also:British See also:trade and transports—the " St. See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James," the " See also:Mars," the " Independence." He had the reputation of being uniformly successful in all engagementswith British vessels. When the independence of the See also:United States was recognized he returned to trade with a high reputation as a See also:seaman. He was the author of a See also:treatise on See also:longitude and See also:latitude, of a " See also:System of masting a 44-See also:gun See also:frigate," and was an See also:advocate for the See also:foundation of a See also:national See also:navy. When the United States navy was reconstituted in 1798 he was one of the See also:original See also:corps of six captains. During the last years of the 18th and first of the 19th See also:century American See also:commerce was subject to much intolerable interference on the See also:part of the See also:French as well as of the British naval See also:officers. It was against the first that Truxtun rendered the services which have made him a prominent personage in the See also:history of the United States navy. In February 1799 he was See also:captain of the United States See also:Constellation " (36) and on the 19th of that See also:month he captured the French " L'Insurgente " (36). In the following See also:year, and while still in command of the " Constellation," he fought the French " Vengeance;" (40), and drove her into See also:Curacao. The crippled See also:state of his own ship, which had lost her mainmast, prevented him from taking See also:possession of the enemy. In 1802 he was to have sailed in command of the See also:squadron sent against the See also:Barbary pirates, but a difference having occurred between him and the navy See also:department in regard to the See also:appointment of a captain to his See also:flagship, his remonstrance against the See also:official decision of the authorities was treated as a resignation, which it was apparently not meant to be, and he was not employed any further. He died at See also:Philadelphia on the 5th of May 1822.
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