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James Biddle (February 18, 1783 – October 1, 1848), of the Biddle family, brother of financier Nicholas Biddle and nephew of Capt. Nicholas Biddle, was an American commodore. His flagship was USS Columbus.
James Biddle (born Feb. 18, 1783, Philadelphia—died Oct. 1, 1848, Philadelphia) was a career U.S. naval officer who negotiated the first treaty between the United States and China. Biddle attended the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, before entering the navy as a midshipman in 1800.
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Jun 16, 2011 · James Biddle was a midshipman aboard USS Philadelphia when she grounded and was captured by Tripolitans during the First Barbary War. Philly 's second lieutenant was the 34-year-old Jacob Jones, a man old for his post who very likely joined the navy over grief from the death of his wife.
Mar 11, 2005 · James Biddle, a leader in preserving America's homes and landscapes of historic value, including Andalusia, his family's 19th-century estate near Philadelphia,...
James Biddle was a member of the crew of the ship Philadelphia that in 1803 ran aground on the coast of Tripoli during the Barbary Pirate wars.
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Biddle, James's brother, who was Andrew Jackson's protagonist in the homeric struggle for the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States in the 1830s. Naval historians might even remember James's uncle Nicholas, whose ship, the U.S.S. Randolph, blew up during a battle with the ship of the line H.M.S. Yarmouth during the Revolutionary war.
