Early-19th-century Irish-American naval officer (1783-1825) who served with Stephen Decatur at Tripoli, he was a member of ‘Preble's Boys,’ a select group of U.S. naval officers who served under the command of Commodore Preble during the First Barbary War. Macdonough achieved fame during the War of 1812, commanding the American naval forces that defeated the British navy at the Battle of Lake Champlain, part of the larger Battle of Plattsburgh, which helped lead to an end to that war. ALS signed “T. Macdonough,” one page, 8 x 9.75, March 20, 1815. Addressed from White Hall, New York, a handwritten letter to G. Trady of Lansingburgh, in part: “Your letter of the 14th inst. came duly to hand the day before yesterday. It will be presently convenient for me to receive the present… which the Citizens of Lansingburgh have done me the honor…and I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you in Lansingburgh in the course of a fortnight on my return from the Lake.” In very good to fine condition, with scattered light foxing and soiling, and a tear and some paper loss to the integral address leaf. Accompanied by two engravings, one of which bears a preprinted signature.
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