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unusual facts about Richard Henry Dana, Sr.


Richard Dana

Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879), American poet and author, son of Francis Dana and father of Richard Henry Dana Jr.,


CSS Alabama's Eastern Atlantic Expeditionary Raid

The Alert (the ship made famous by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr.in his memoir Two Years Before the Mast), out of New London, shows no colors, and Semmes orders her to heave to, after demonstrating yet again the Alabama's 32-pounder.

David Belden Lyman

He moved to the U.S. in 1866, graduated from Harvard in 1871 and married Ruth Charlotte Dana (daughter of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.) in 1876.

Ephraim Morse

The two had both read Two Years Before the Mast by fellow Massachusetts native Richard Henry Dana, Jr., about his voyage by sea to California, spending much time in San Diego, then a small Mexican pueblo.

Halifax Fisheries Commission

William Henry Trescot and Richard Henry Dana, Jr. served as counsel for the United States before the Commission.

Henry Mellus

Henry sailed "around the horn" with Richard Henry Dana, Jr. on the ship named the Pilgrim, and arrived in California in 1835.

History of Hispanic and Latino Americans

In 1840, the American adventurer, writer and lawyer Richard Henry Dana, Jr. wrote of his experiences aboard ship off California in the 1830s in Two Years Before the Mast.

Old Town San Diego State Historic Park

San Diego during this period is vividly described by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. in his classic book Two Years Before the Mast.

Richard Dana

Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882), American lawyer and author of Two Years Before the Mast, son of Richard Henry Dana Sr. and father of Richard Henry Dana III,

Richard Henry Dana III

Dana was the son of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.; he married Edith Longfellow, the daughter of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

In 1876, his nomination as ambassador to Great Britain was defeated in the Senate by political enemies, partly because of a lawsuit for plagiarism brought against him for a legal textbook he had edited, Henry Wheaton's Elements of International Law (8th ed., 1866).

Thomas Wrightington

Richard Henry Dana, Jr. in his novel Two Years Before the Mast commented on first coming ashore at San Diego that

Vote early and vote often

The British newspaper The Times of 27 August 1859 printed a letter about the use of the ballot for voting in the United States, written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. to his friend Lord Radstock.


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