![]() ![]() Barney was commissioned as a captain in the United States Navy on 25 April 1814. The plan consisted of using a flotilla of shallow-draft barges, each equipped with a large gun which would be used in large numbers to attack and annoy the invading British, then retreating to the safety of shoal waters abundant in the Chesapeake region. He authored the plan to defend the Chesapeake, which was submitted to Secretary of the Navy, William Jones and accepted on August 20, 1813. Barney entered the US Navy as a captain, and commanded the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, a fleet of gunboats defending Chesapeake Bay. War of 1812 Chesapeake Bay Flotilla Īt the outbreak of the War of 1812, after a successful but unprofitable privateering cruise as commander of the Baltimore schooner Rossie, in which he captured the Post Office Packet Service packet ship Princess Amelia. He then cruised in the Caribbean between Havana and Chesapeake Bay, returning to Cap-Français on 17 October. He sailed her from Rochefort to ferry weapons and ammunition to Cap-Français. Between 7 June and 17 October 1796 he was captain of the French frigate Harmonie. Service in the French Navy īetween 17 Joshua Barney served as a captain in the French Navy. īarney then joined the French Navy, where he was made commander of a squadron. Īt the conclusion of the war, Barney was admitted as an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati in the state of Pennsylvania and later transferred to the Maryland Society. The ship also carried a party of Austrian naturalists under the leadership of Franz Jozef Maerter and including Franz Boos. He was given command of Monk (renamed General Washington) and sailed for France with dispatches for Benjamin Franklin, returning with news that peace had been declared. In April 1782, he was put in command of the Pennsylvania ship Hyder Ally, in which he captured the more heavily armed warship HMS General Monk in the Battle of Delaware Bay. He wrote an account of this in The Memoirs of Commodore Barney, published in Boston in 1832. In 1779, he was again taken prisoner and imprisoned in Old Mill Prison, Plymouth, England, until his escape in 1781. ![]() īarney was taken prisoner and exchanged several times. ![]() While serving on Andrew Doria he took a prominent part in the defense of the Delaware River. Later he served aboard Wasp and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant for gallantry in the action between Wasp and a British brig, the tender Betsey. His grandson Joseph Nicholson Barney was also a United States Navy (and Confederate States Navy) officer.īarney served in the Continental Navy beginning in February 1776, as master's mate of Hornet where he took part in Commodore Esek Hopkins's raid on New Providence. His widow Harriet settled in Kentucky with their three children. While on his way to Kentucky, where he planned to retire, he died in Pittsburgh. īarney married twice, and had children with both wives. In 1775, he served as second-in-command to his brother-in-law aboard a merchant ship bound for Europe after his brother-in-law died, he assumed command and sailed the ship to Nice. He later achieved the rank of commodore in the United States Navy and also served in the War of 1812. Afterwards, the group writes and illustrates their own book about Captain Pickles.Joshua Barney (6 July 1759 – 1 December 1818) was an American Navy officer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and as a captain in the French Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. Barney, Baby Bop, and Riff suggest reading as a way to pass the time. However, after a crash hurts BJ's foot, he is discouraged to learn that he will need to spend the rest of his day indoors, resting. " Fun with Reading" is the second part of the eighteenth episode from the fourteenth season of Barney & Friends.īJ plays pretend as his superhero alter-ego, Captain Pickles, in the park. " Welcome, Cousin Riff"/" Special Skills" This episode and " Playing Games" aired on Zachary Soza's fifteenth birthday, three years after the episode " A Perfectly Purple Day" aired and eleven years after the episode " Are We There Yet?" aired.Episode 1012, which combines this and " Playing Games", marks the two-hundredth episode of Barney & Friends.The third episode to feature an all female cast of the kids.The final appearances of Bridget and Emma.Barney and his friends holding books in their hands. ![]()
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