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    Thomas ap Catesby Jones (24 April 1790 – 30 May 1858) was a United States Navy officer who served in the War of 1812 and Mexican–American War. Thomas...
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    Catesby ap Roger Jones (April 15, 1821 – June 21, 1877) was an American naval officer who was a commander in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil...
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    Mexican War, Civil War, World War I, and World War II. His brother Thomas ap Catesby Jones won distinction in the US Navy. Of his thirteen children many went...
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    Mexico, the commander of the United States Navy Pacific Squadron Thomas ap Catesby Jones sailed from Lima, Peru with three warships to Monterey, California...
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    America until December. In Valparaíso on 21 January 1848, Cmdre. Thomas ap Catesby Jones took her as the flagship of the Pacific Squadron, intending to...
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    Macedonian was launched and placed in service in 1836, with Captain Thomas ap Catesby Jones in command. Macedonian was assigned to the West Indies Squadron...
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  • tender to a squadron of gunboats, under the command of Lieutenant Thomas ap Catesby Jones, that in December 1814 opposed the British advance on New Orleans...
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    Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4796-1. Smith, Gene A. (2000). Thomas Ap Catesby Jones: Commodore of Manifest Destiny. Library of naval biography. Annapolis...
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    States. The original appointed commanding officer was Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones. Funding for the original expedition was requested by President...
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    An American flotilla of five gunboats, commanded by Lieutenant Thomas ap Catesby Jones, blocked British access to the lakes. On December 14, around 980...
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    White-Jacket. The officer whom Melville based his fictional commodore on, Thomas ap Catesby Jones, a former commander of USS United States, was later brought up...
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    making a detour. In 1842 the Pacific Squadron commander Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones received false information that war had begun between the United...
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  • Cross Thomas ap Catesby Jones (1790–1858), U.S. Navy officer Thomas Jones (Medal of Honor) (1820–1892), American Civil War sailor Thomas E. Jones (doctor)...
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    an American seaman on Upolu.[RL30172] 1842: Mexico: Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones, in command of a squadron long cruising off California, occupied...
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    and was received on December 7. Patterson dispatched Lieutenant Thomas ap Catesby Jones and a small flotilla to wait outside of the Rigolets heading eastward...
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    were struggling for independence. On 25 September 1825 Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones arrived at Lima to assume control of the Peacock. In early 1826...
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    Southampton Bay, is for the Navy frigate Southampton, which Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones sailed, along with a small fleet, to the cove in 1849. The Southampton...
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  • money and became a clerk on the US Navy ship Cyane, commanded by Thomas ap Catesby Jones. For the next three years, Gambel served on several navy ships...
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    Southwest Territory. one of ten children born to Rezin Bowie and Elve Ap-Catesby Jones. Bowie was one of twins, with brother Rhesa. His father had been injured...
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    William Hooper protested the takeover to Kearny. American Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones arrived with the USS United States on 22 July. He landed in Hilo...
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    under the command of Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones, captured the nearby Presidio of Monterey on October 20, 1842. Jones appointed Belden alcalde, a political...
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    1842, Monterey was surprised by the actions of U.S. Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones, who landed Marines to take over Monterey in the mistaken belief...
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    placed Thomas ap Catesby Jones in command of Peacock and dispatched him to Hawaii to ascertain the behavior of Percival. However, upon Jones' arrival...
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  • The Journal of Southern History. Another book is a biography of Thomas ap Catesby Jones, who served in the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War. Smith...
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  • October, before Micheltorena reached Monterey, American Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones mistakenly thought that war had broken out between the United States...
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    the 1842 Capture of Monterey, when his predecessor, Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones, thought war had been declared and captured the capital of Alta...
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    before being ordered in, July 1836, to recruit men for Captain Thomas ap Catesby Jones' survey and exploration expedition. Tattnall was promoted to commander...
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  • Shubrick, 19 July 1847 – 6 May 1848. Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones from 6 May 1848. USS Columbus, Captain Thomas W. Wyman USS Congress, Commander Samuel...
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    appertaining to foreigners in the 1826 treaty signed by Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones of the United States Navy and King Kamehameha III. U.S. Navy Commodore...
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    known men as General William Tecumseh Sherman, Thomas Larkin, William Heath Davis and Thomas ap Catesby Jones. His wine was drunk all over California and...
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