Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History, <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=brown,moses&n=1&type=person">Brown, Moses</a>, 1742-1804

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

19th-Century American

View text chunked by:

first letter : entry
entry

Brown, Moses, 1742-1804

Naval officer; born in Newburyport, Mass., Jan. 20, 1742; served through the Revolutionary War. While in command of the Intrepid he captured four English vessels in the latter half of 1779; and was placed in command of the Merrimack, when that vessel was completed for the government. In 1799-1801 he captured the French ships Le Phenix, Le Magicien, Le Bonaparte, and Le Brillante. He died at sea, Jan. 1, 1804.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

Tufts University provided support for entering this text.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar:

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History
Benson Lossing, Ed.

This text is part of:

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents:

Brown, Moses, 1742-1804

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History Benson Lossing, Ed.

This text is part of:

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents:

Brown, Moses, 1742-1804

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History
Benson Lossing, Ed.