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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: September 5, 2015
Caption: Commodore Joshua Barney
Additional Description: This 1818 portrait of Joshua Barney by Rembrandt Peale hangs in the Maryland Historical Society Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.

“Swashbuckling Hero of Early America

Born near maritime Baltimore when it was still a village, Joshua Barney (1759-1818) was an officer in the new American navy by age seventeen. During the American Revolution, he had enough adventures to fill a lifetime. Barney commanded vessels in fierce firefights with the British, and was captured more than once. He escaped from a notorious prison, and in 1783 carried news of the American victory to France. Always restless, he served as an officer in the French Navy in the 1790s then went to sea again as a successful American privateer when war broke out in 1812.” — MD Historical Society
Submitted: December 18, 2016, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p372466
File Size: 1.058 Megabytes

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