Oliver Hazard (16+)
Schedule
Thu Oct 24 2024 at 12:00 am to 02:00 am
UTC-05:00Location
Music Hall of Williamsburg | Brooklyn, NY
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The man who was to lead the Lake Erie fleet to victory during the War of 1812 was born on 23 August 1785, at South Kingstown, Rhode Island. The eldest of five sons and three daughters born to Christopher Raymond and Sarah Alexander Perry, the first son was named after his paternal grandmother's father, Oliver Hazard, and also for his uncle, Oliver Hazard Perry, who had recently been lost at sea. Oliver Hazard Perry was warranted a midshipman in the U.S. Navy on 7 April 1799. Over the next six years, he participated in the Quasi-War with France and the Tripolitan War against the Barbary pirates. During that period, Perry served on such famous ships as Adams, Constellation, Nautilus, Essex, and Constitution, but he was not involved in any of the memorable engagements of those little known wars. After an extended leave in 1806β07, Perry superintended construction of a flotilla of small gunboats in Rhode Island and Connecticut, a duty he considered tedious, until, in April 1809, he received his first seagoing cπ Venue: Music Hall of Williamsburg
π Address: 66 North 6th St.
πΊοΈ Extended Address: Brooklyn, NY 11211
π City: Brooklyn
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Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North 6th St., Brooklyn, NY 11211, US, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays: