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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: June 11, 2013
Caption: Commodore Joshua Barney
Additional Description: This portrait of Joshua Barney is in the U.S. Naval Academy Museum Collection.

“Barney served in the Continental Navy and, after the Revolution, he joined the French Navy, and commanded a squadron.

At the outbreak of the War of 1812, he commanded the privateer Rossie. Upon entering the US Navy as a captain Barney submitted a plan to the Navy Department to use a flotilla of shallow-draft barges, each equipped with a large gun to attack and annoy the British in the Chesapeake Bay.

After the destruction of his gunboat flotilla, Barney took about five hundred Marines and flotillamen to Bladensburg, Maryland, to help defend the capital. Barney's detachment held its ground until flanked and overwhelmed. In the action, Barney was wounded.” — Naval Academy Museum
Submitted: June 14, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p311245
File Size: 2.954 Megabytes

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