USS Potomac was a frigate in the United States Navy laid down by the Washington Navy Yard in August 1819 and launched in March 1822. Fitting out was not...

USS Potomac or USNS Potomac may refer to one of these United States Navy ships: USS Potomac (1822), a frigate in commission from 1831 to 1877 USS Potomac (1861)...

ARC-1) USS Poseidon (ARL-12) (ARL-12) USS Positive (AMc-95) USS Postmaster General (SP-2364) USS Potawatomi (AT-109/ATF-109) USS Potomac (1822, 1861,...

his birth state on March 23, 1864. He was assigned as a landsman to the USS Brooklyn (1858), part of Rear Admiral David Farragut's West Gulf Blockading...

USS Beagle was a schooner in the United States Navy during the 1820s. Beagle was purchased by the Navy on 20 December 1822 in Baltimore, Maryland, and...

Street Cemetery in New Haven. Three ships were named USS Foote for him. Civil War Fort Foote on the Potomac, now a National Park, was named for him on September...

entering in 1822 and graduating in December 1823. Already a midshipman as of May 1, 1822, from 1823 until 1828, he served in the Pacific Squadron on USS United...

frigates USS John Adams (John Adams, 1799, whereabouts unknown), USS Philadelphia (Hercules, 1799, burned 1804), and USS Potomac (Captain John Smith, 1822, whereabouts...

Thomas Stowell Phelps (November 2, 1822 – January 10, 1901) was an officer in the United States Navy. He served in the United States Navy from 1840 to...

Peacock and the newly commissioned 10-gun schooner USS Boxer were ordered to assist the frigate Potomac, which had just sailed on the first Sumatran Expedition...

received word of the 'massacre' and ordered Commodore John Downes in USS Potomac to punish the natives for their acts of piracy. Arriving off Sumatra...

shipbuilding on the Potomac River dramatically fell as the yard built just one naval vessel; the aptly named and ill-fated schooner, USS Experiment. As early...

was examined and identified on the monitor U.S.S. Montauk, moored at the Yard docks on the Anacostia / Potomac Rivers. Following the war, the Yard continued...

about 400 other dignitaries examining the new steamship USS Princeton, which sailed down the Potomac River from Alexandria, Virginia. He and Gilmer, his successor...

he designed the United States Navy's first screw-propelled steam-frigate USS Princeton, in partnership with Captain (later Commodore) Robert F. Stockton...

daughters Julia and Margaret were aboard a pleasure cruise on the Potomac River. As the USS Princeton neared Mount Vernon, the world's biggest naval gun,...

Academy when he was fourteen and graduated second in a class of forty in 1822. He then became a resident of Middletown, Connecticut, before and during...

The first USS Essex of the United States Navy was a 36-gun or 32-gun sailing frigate that participated in the Quasi-War with France, the First Barbary...

December 1965 Walters, Kerry (2013). Explosion on the Potomac: The 1844 Calamity Aboard the USS Princeton. Charleston, SC: History Press. p. Obsequies...

Compromise of 1790 was struck, permanently locating the capital on the Potomac River, and the federal government assumed the war debts of all original...

February 6 to 9, U.S. forces under Commodore John Downes aboard the frigate USS Potomac landed and stormed a fort to punish natives of the town of Quallah Battoo...

Washington, D.C. (effective 2 years hence). March 1 – The U.S. naval vessel USS Columbus is launched in Washington, D.C. March 2 – Arkansas Territory is...

USS Congress was a nominally rated 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. James Hackett built her at the Portsmouth...

continue raid Battle of Chancellorsville 2 May Lee defeats Hooker's Army of Potomac, Jackson killed Second Battle of Fredericksburg 3 May Union forces under...

construction of three protected cruisers, USS Chicago, USS Boston, and USS Atlanta, and the dispatch vessel USS Dolphin, together known as the ABCD ships...

Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. In...

Engineers for the Army; Major General, commander with the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War, Commander of the Army of Texas Samuel T...

Age of Jackson and the Art of American Power, 1815–1848. Washington, DC: Potomac Books. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-61234-605-2. Marszalek 2000, pp. 56–57. Manweller...

During the Late Woodland period, the archaeological culture known as the Potomac Creek complex resided in the area from Baltimore south to the Rappahannock...

The first USS Meteor retained her commercial name when the United States Navy purchased her for the "Stone Fleet." She was sunk as an obstruction in Charleston...