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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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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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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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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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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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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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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James Monroe (New York politician) (redirect from James Monroe (1799 - 1870))
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Midshipman in 1799. He distinguished himself at Tripoli onboard Constitution. Lieutenant Burrows died while in command of the brig USS Enterprise as a...
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of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. II, p. 471. In 1937, the US Navy named a destroyer after James C. Jarvis. The USS Jarvis (DD-393) was...
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October 1802 until December 1803 on board of USS John Adams. In 1804 he was appointed sailing-master of USS Congress. Under the command of captain Rodgers,...
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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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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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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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