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Wickes, Lambert 1735-

Naval officer; born in New England, presumably in 1735; joined the navy Dec. 22, 1775; commanded the brig Reprisal in 1776, and in the summer of that year captured the English vessels Friendship, Shark, and Peter. He next took Benjamin Franklin to France while in command of the same vessel, and before leaving French waters captured fourteen ships in five days. the Reprisal, with Wickes and all the crew excepting the cook, was lost in a storm off Newfoundland in 1778.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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