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    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...
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  • USS Congress (1777), was a 28-gun frigate built under authority of an act of the Second Continental Congress dated 13 December 1775 USS Congress (1799),...
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    USS Congress was a United States Navy frigate in operation between 1842 and 1862. The fourth Navy ship to carry the name Congress, she served in the Mediterranean...
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    six. The least expensive was Congress at $197,246. During construction, a sloop named Chesapeake was launched on 20 June 1799 but was renamed Patapsco between...
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    frigates were: USS United States (1797) USS Constellation (1797) USS Constitution (1797) USS Chesapeake (1799) USS Congress (1799) USS President (1800)...
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    USS Congress at Newport. On 6 January 1800, Essex, under the command of Captain Preble, departed Newport, Rhode Island, in company with USS Congress to...
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    The USS Enterprise was a schooner, built by Henry Spencer at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1799. Her first commander thought that she was too lightly built...
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  • Skenesboro, New York USS Trumbull (1776), one of the 13 frigates authorized by the Continental Congress on 13 December 1775. USS Trumbull (1799), an 18 gun sloop-of-war...
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    and later in the War of 1812. He commanded USS Vixen, USS Syren, USS Wasp, USS Essex, USS Congress, and USS Franklin. He was born in England on 1 or 2...
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    America's second president: USS Adams (1799), a 28-gun frigate, was launched in New York on June 8, 1799. USS John Adams (1799), a 24-gun frigate, was launched...
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  • and launched 8 June 1799; USS John Adams (1799) was a 24-gun frigate built in Charleston, South Carolina launched 1 October 1799. USS John Adams (SSBN-620)...
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  • The first USS Savannah was a coastal galley that served in the U.S. Navy from 1799 to 1802. Savannah was one of a number of small vessels authorized by...
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  • Navy, DANFS, USS George Washington, page article, 3rd prgh Leiner, Frederick (2000). Millions for Defense: The Subscription Warships of 1799. Annapolis...
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    James Monroe (September 10, 1799 – September 7, 1870) was an American politician who served as the United States representative from New York (1839–1841)...
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    Quasi-War (category 1799 in France)
    funding was approved for the USS Congress, USS Chesapeake, and USS President, plus the frigates USS General Greene and USS Adams. The provision of naval...
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    The first John Adams was originally built in 1799 as a frigate for the United States Navy, converted to a corvette in 1809, and later converted back to...
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    when she captured the French frigate Insurgente on 1 February 1799, and after serving on USS Constitution in the Mediterranean, commanded the schooners Nautilus...
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    Street. In 1812 Tardy's family pressured Captain John Smith of the USS Congress (1799) into taking him on as a captain's steward. Tardy was brought back...
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    tours, with the USS Constitution Museum nearby. Chesapeake was built at the Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia, and was launched on December 2, 1799. The Chesapeake...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1799. 1799 (MDCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    several organizations Henry Tazewell (1753–1799), U.S. Senator Commodore Thomas Truxtun, commander of the USS Constellation William Tuckey (1708–1781),...
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  • television miniseries John Adams, 2008 television miniseries USS Adams (1799) USS John Adams (1799) USS John Adams (SSBN-620) Mount Adams (New Hampshire) Mount...
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    USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned...
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    Silas Talbot (category Commanders of the USS Constitution)
    American Revolutionary War, and is most famous for commanding USS Constitution from 1799 to 1801. Talbot was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati's...
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    John Y. Mason (category 1799 births)
    John Young Mason (April 18, 1799 – October 3, 1859) was a United States representative from Virginia, the 16th and 18th United States Secretary of the...
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  • was in command of the frigate USS Roanoke at the Battle of Hampton Roads when CSS Merrimac destroyed USS Congress and USS Cumberland. Before the Monitor...
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    Brothers, captured by a French privateer on 14 April. On 17 April, 1799 she and USS Insurgente captured French letter of marque schooner Diligente off...
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    The British warship HMS Leopard (1790) captured and boarded the USS Chesapeake (1799). August 17, 1807: The Clermont, Robert Fulton's first American steamboat...
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    USS United States was a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy and the first of the six original frigates authorized for...
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    Jacob Jones (naval officer) (category Commanders of the USS Constitution)
    from the United States Congress. Jones was promoted to the rank of captain in March 1813 and given command of the frigate USS Macedonian. He spent time...
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