Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter - A. Sinclair, the Essex, Gibraltar, to Capt. James Barron, U.S. Navy, Hampton, Virginia, 1805 September 18
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Identifier: id165507
Scope and Contents
7 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Re: affairs in the Mediterranean after James Barron left. News of Col. Lear and Comm. Rodgers at Tunis, Lear negotiating to avoid war, Rodgers continuing to fire on Tunisian vessels. News of the duplicity of Comm. Rodgers; of Lord Nelson's unsuccessful pursuit of the French; of 9 American ships at Gibraltar, prizes of the British.
Dates:
1805 September 18