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William Bainbridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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William Sims Bainbridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This page features all the views we have related to Commodore William Bainbridge, USN. ... William Bainbridge was born in Princeton, New Jersey, on 7 May 1774. He went to sea in the merchant marine in 1789 and was captain of a ship before reaching the age of twenty.
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William Bainbridge--born on 7 May 1774 at Princeton, N.J.--went to sea in a Philadelphia merchantman at the age of 15. He developed rapidly as a seaman and leader and attained command of the ship Hope by the end of 1793. During ensuing years, he took her on trading voyages to European ports--calling often at Bordeaux-
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BAINBRIDGE, William, naval officer, born in Princeton, New Jersey, 7 May 1'774; died in Philadelphia, 28 July 1833. His ancestor, who in 1600 settled in New Jersey, was the son of Sir Arthur Bain-bridge, of Durham County, England.
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William Bainbridge, one of the fathers of the United States Navy, helped lay the groundwork by which the Navy would become a professional force; he was also probably one of the most unlucky officers to ever wear the uniform. ... Thus far William Bainbridge seemed anything but unlucky. His luck seem to hold into 1798.
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In the mid-1790s William Stearns and Jonathan Waldo acquired almost all of the shares of Assembly House stock from their fellow proprietors. The pair sold the hall and, with a third partner, erected the Stearns Block on Washington Street. ... Christopher Gore, and William Bainbridge, commodore of the frigate Constitution.
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Website of William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D., social and information scientist. ... WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE; A Personal Convergenist Website ... Memorials: To be remembered, remember. The Bainbridge Family...
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Bainbridge was captured. Commanded the frigate "USS Constitution" (know as Old Ironsides) during the War of 1812. Established the 1st United States Naval school in Boston in 1815. Commander of the Philadelphia Naval Yard in 1821, and was named commander of United States Navy in Search Amazon for William Bainbridge...
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