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2.
- Creator:
- Tureaud, Augustin Dominique, b. 1764
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2487
- Image Count:
- 36
- Abstract:
- Manuscript memoir bound with string, in French, detailing Tureaud's employ as supercargo aboard the Alert, an American merchant vessel which departed Baltimore for the port of Vera Cruz in 1801 and his subsequent life in Louisiana. Narrative describes...
- Description:
- Augustin Dominique Tureaud, born October 23, 1764, in La Rochelle, France. He fled San Domingo after a slave revolt, and moved to Baltimore where he sought to make his fortune in maritime trade. After a failed commercial voyage to Vera Cruz in 1801, T...
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States., United States, Latin America., Latin America, New Orleans (La.), Port Royal (Jamaica), and Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico)
- Subject (Name):
- Bringier, Marius Pons., Tureaud, Augustin Dominique, b. 1764., Tureaud, Elizabeth Louise, b. 1788., Wood, Trist., Alert (Ship), Spring Bird (Ship), Crescent (Ship), and La Seine (Ship)
- Subject (Topic):
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Naval operations, Yellow fever, Merchant marine, Merchant mariners, Commerce, Social life and customs, Description and travel, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Augustin Dominique Tureaud papers, [18--]-[19--].
3.
- Creator:
- Parsons, Charles, 1821-1910, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1863?]
- Call Number:
- BrSide4o Zc22 863pa
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Print shows Farragut's fleet bombarding and fighting at the battle of Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip near New Orleans, April 1862. Ships shown include for the Confederate States Navy, three ironclads: CSS Manassas, Louisiana, and Mississippi; for th...
- Description:
- Title from caption below image.
- Publisher:
- Virtue, Yorston & Co.?
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States, Mississippi River, Fort Jackson (La.), Fort Saint Philip (La.), and New Orleans (La.)
- Subject (Name):
- United States. Navy. Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, Manassas (Ship), Mississippi (Ironclad), Louisiana (Ironclad), Hartford (Ship), Pensacola (Screw steamer), Brooklyn (Ship), and Varuna (Ship)
- Subject (Topic):
- History and Naval operations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Capture of New Orleans : fleet passing forts on the Mississippi
4.
- Creator:
- Heiden, Louis, Count
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 83
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 42
- Abstract:
- The collection consists of 35 letters from Count Heiden to Admiral Codrington, most docketed or annotated by Codrington. Subjects includes the battle of Navarino and its aftermath; Codrington's summary recall from Malta by the British government and h...
- Description:
- Count Louis Heiden, Russian admiral who commanded the Russian ships of the allied fleet under Admiral Codrington at the battle of Navarino in 1827.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Greece
- Subject (Name):
- Kapodistrias, Iōannēs Antōniou, 1776-1831., Codrington, Edward, Sir, 1770-1851., Heiden, Louis, Count., and Great Britain. Royal Navy.
- Subject (Topic):
- Navarino, Battle of, Pylos, Greece, 1827, Philhellenism, Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829, Foreign relations, History, Naval, History, and Naval operations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Count Louis Heiden letters to Admiral Codrington, 1827-1843
5.
- Creator:
- Leizelt, Balthasar Friedrich, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.00.00.158+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Vue d'optique depicting the burning English frigate Quebec and its opponent the French frigate Surveillante, during the battle of October 6, 1779 near the island of Ushant. The print is dedicated to the memory of the Quebec's captain, George Farmer, w...
- Alternative Title:
- Etat malheureux du Quebeck et Surveillante vais. de guer. franʻ
- Description:
- Headline title printed in reverse mirror image.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States
- Subject (Name):
- Farmer, George, 1732-1779., Surveillante (Frigate), and Québec (Frigate)
- Subject (Topic):
- History and Naval operations
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Etat malheureux du Quebeck et de la Surveillante vaiseau de guerre francois Der unglückliche Zufall der beeden Französischen Kriegs Schiffe, genant Quebeck und Surveillante / [graphic] =
6.
- Published / Created:
- colour'd 1756.
- Call Number:
- 756.02.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An engraving showing the head of Louis XV in the image of the coast of France with the ports of Dunkirk and Boulogne shown. From his mouth come the words: "O! O! O! me d' Pompedour." The French navy is shown towing small forts across the Channel towar...
- Description:
- Title from text above design.
- Publisher:
- Sold in May's Buildings
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and France
- Subject (Name):
- Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774
- Subject (Topic):
- Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Naval operations, Foreign relations, Campaigns & battles, Forts & fortifications, and Ships
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The French King's scheme for an invasion [graphic].
7.
- Creator:
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [July 1740]
- Call Number:
- 740.07.31.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Cardinal Fleury and French dejction at the success of Admiral Vernon, coupled with condemnation of Robert Walpole for his initial opposition to the war. Fleury, finely dressed in cardinal's robes, rises from a chair and teeters on the edge ...
- Alternative Title:
- Preferment of the barber's block
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- According to act, July 1740. Sold at [the] Black-moor's Head opposite Surry Street, Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Name):
- Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Hosier, Francis, 1673-1727.
- Subject (Topic):
- Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748, Naval operations, Cardinals, Gallows, and National emblems
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The cardinal in the dumps with the head of the Colossus. [graphic]
8.
- Creator:
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [July 1740]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C2 738
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Cardinal Fleury and French dejction at the success of Admiral Vernon, coupled with condemnation of Robert Walpole for his initial opposition to the war. Fleury, finely dressed in cardinal's robes, rises from a chair and teeters on the edge ...
- Alternative Title:
- Preferment of the barber's block
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- According to act, July 1740. Sold at [the] Black-moor's Head opposite Surry Street, Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Name):
- Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Hosier, Francis, 1673-1727.
- Subject (Topic):
- Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748, Naval operations, Cardinals, Gallows, and National emblems
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The cardinal in the dumps with the head of the Colossus. [graphic]
9.
- Creator:
- Clarke, Thomas Curtis, 1827-1901
- Published / Created:
- 1852.
- Call Number:
- Zc72 +852cL
- Image Count:
- 74
- Description:
- BEIN Zc72 +852cL: Original wrappers.
- Publisher:
- S.C. Paul & Co.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California
- Subject (Name):
- Stockton, Robert Field, 1795-1866.
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Mexican War, 1846-1848, and Naval operations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The mission of America: containing the conquest of California, resources of the Pacific, the American Navy. To which is added, The operations of Commodore Stockton on the western coast, from the original manuscript of the late J. Fenimore Cooper ...