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CAPTAIN “JOSH” BARNEY
THE IRREPRESSIBLE YANKEE
(1759-1818)
“Never strike your flag until you have to. And if you have to, why let it come down easy-like, with one, last gun,—fer luck.”—Maxims of 1812.
CAPTAIN “JOSH” BARNEY
THE IRREPRESSIBLE YANKEE
(1759-1818)
If you would hear of fighting brave,
Of war’s alarms and prisons dark,
Then, listen to the tale I tell,
Of Yankee pluck—and cruising barque,
Which, battling on the rolling sea,
There fought and won,—Can such things be?