ESEK See also:HOPKINS (1718-18oz)
, the first See also:admiral of the See also:United States See also:navy, was See also:born at Scituate, Rhode See also:Island, in 1718
.
He belonged to one of the most prominent Puritan families of New See also:England
.
At the See also:age of twenty he went to See also:sea, and rapidly came to the front as a See also:good sailor and skilful trader
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Marrying, three years later, into a prosperous See also:family of See also:Newport, and thus increasing his See also:influence in Rhode Island, he became See also:commodore of a See also:fleet of seventeen merchantmen, the movements of which he directed with skill and See also:energy
.
In See also:war as well as See also:peace, See also:Hopkins was establishing his reputation as one of the leading colonial See also:seamen, for as See also:captain of a See also:privateer he made more than one brilliant and successful venture during the Seven Years' War. in the See also:interval between voyages, moreover, he was engaged in Rhode Island politics, and rendered efficient support to his See also:brother See also:Stephen against the See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward See also:faction
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At the outbreak of the War of See also:Independence, Hopkins was appointed brigadier-See also:general by Rhode Island, was commissioned, See also:December 1775, by the See also:Continental See also:Congress, See also:commander-in-See also:chief of the navy, and in See also:January 1776 hoisted his See also:flag as admiral of the eight converted merchantmen which then constituted the navy of the United States
.
His first cruise resulted in a See also:great acquisition of material of war and an indecisive fight with H.M.S
.
" See also:Glasgow." At first this created great See also:enthusiasm, but See also:criticism soon made itself heard
.
Hopkins and two of his captains were tried for See also:breach of orders, and, though ably defended by See also:John See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams, were censured by Congress
.
The commands, nevertheless, were not interfered with, and a See also:prize was soon afterwards named after the admiral by their orders
.
But the difficulties and mutual distrust continually increased, and in 1777 Congress summarily dismissed Hopkins from his command, on the complaint of some of his See also:officers
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Before the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order arrived, the admiral had detected the See also:conspiracy against him, and had had the ringleaders tried and degraded by See also:court-See also:martial
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But the Congress followed up its order by dismissing him from the navy
.
For the See also:rest of his See also:life he lived in Rhode Island, playing a prominent See also:part in See also:state politics, and he died at See also:Providence in 1802
.
See See also:Edward See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field, Life of Esek Hopkins (Providence, 1898) ; also an See also:article by R
.
Grieve in the New England See also:Magazine of See also:November 1897
.
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