Note p. 230 n. 2 — INDEX.
Reading edition
[130] Born in Connecticut, 1773; died, 1843. Served in merchant marine from 1784 to 1798, when he entered the navy; engaged in the Barbary War in command of the Argus; commissioned captain in 1806; given command of the Constitution in 1807; won great distinction by capturing the Guerrière with a loss of fourteen killed and wounded, while the enemy lost seventy-nine; commanded the Pacific and Mediterranean squadrons and served on the naval board at Washington.
[131] See O. W. Holmes’s Old Ironsides.