Joshua Barney
| Joshua Barney | |
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| Born |
6 July 1759 Baltimore, Province of Maryland |
| Died | 10 December 1818 (aged 59) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Navy
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| Years of service | 1776–1818 |
| Rank |
 Commodore
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Joshua Barney (6 July 1759 – 1 December 1818) was an American Navy officer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War. He later achieved the rank of commodore in the United States Navy and also served in the War of 1812. He was born in Baltimore.
Barney 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. Later he served on the Wasp and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant for gallantry in the action between the Wasp and a British brig, the tender Betsey. While serving on Andrew Doria he took a prominent part in the defense of the Delaware River.
Barney was taken prisoner and exchanged several times. In 1779 he was again taken prisoner and imprisoned in Old Mill Prison, Plymouth, England until his escape in 1781. He wrote an account of this in The Memoirs of Commodore Barney, published in Boston, 1832.
In 1782, he was put in command of the Pennsylvania ship, Hyder Ally, in which in April he captured HMS General Monk, a warship that was much more heavily armed than Hyder Ally. He was given command of Monk and sailed for France with dispatches for Benjamin Franklin, returning with news that peace had been declared.
Barney was an original member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati and later transferred to the Maryland society.
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