Barney, Joshua

(1759-1818), a naval officer in the Revolutionary War, distinguished himself by gallantry and by various adventures, and in 1782 commanded the ‘‘ Hyder Ali’’ in its capture of the ‘‘ General Monk." From 1794 to 1800 he was in the naval service of the French Republic. In 1814 he was appointed to the command of the fiotilla which was to defend Chesapeake Bay, and was severely wounded at the battle of Bladensburg.