The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . l-liance, 36 guns, at Boston, in which he sailed toFrance, 11th February, 1781, with Col. John Laurens,special commissioner to the French the return trip he captured the brig Mars, 22guns, and the brig Minerva, 10 guns. On 28th May,he fell in with the Atalanta, 16 guns, and theTrepassey, 14 guns, and after a very sharp fightof three hours they struck their colours. In this fightBarry was severely wounded in the shoulder by a grape
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . l-liance, 36 guns, at Boston, in which he sailed toFrance, 11th February, 1781, with Col. John Laurens,special commissioner to the French the return trip he captured the brig Mars, 22guns, and the brig Minerva, 10 guns. On 28th May,he fell in with the Atalanta, 16 guns, and theTrepassey, 14 guns, and after a very sharp fightof three hours they struck their colours. In this fightBarry was severely wounded in the shoulder by a grapeshot. On 23 December, 1781, he sailed from Bostonfor France with the Marquis de Lafayette as passenger,and returning arrived at New London 13 May, sailed, 4 August, 1782, on the most successfulcruise of the war; the prizes he captured sold formore than £600,000. Returning by way of the WestIndies and Havana, on 10 March, 1783, he fell in withthe British frigate Sybille, 38 guns, and. after asharp fight of forty-five minutes sne hauled off ap-parently much injured and joined two other shipswith which she had been in company. This was the. John Bahet, last encounter of the Revolutionary war at sea. Peacewas declared 11 April, 1783,the Alliance was sold,and the country was without a navy. The UnitedStates navy was permanently organized by Act ofCongress, 27 March, 1794. Six captains were ap-pointed by President Washington, by and with theconsent of the Senate, and Barry headed the commission, signed by George Washington, Presi-dent, was dated 22 February 1797 and appointed himcaptain in the navy to take rank from the 4th dayof June, 1794—Registered No. I He was thusmade officially the ranking officer of the UnitedStates navy. He superintended the building of thefrigate United States, 44 guns, and made severalcruises in her with other vessels under his 1801 the navy was reduced to a peace basis; ninecaptains were retained Barry being at the hea
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