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Daniel Carmick, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1772, was appointed a lieutenant of Marines on USS ''Ganges'' on May 5, 1798, and entered the newly formed United States Marine Corps as a captain on July 11, 1798. During the Quasi-War with France, he commanded the marine detachment on the USS ''Constitution'', and led the daring attack to spike the cannon in the fort at Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo. Major Carmick served with distinction in the Mediterranean, and commanded the Marines in the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. When the war began, the U.S. naval presence in New Orleans was perhaps stronger than at any point in the country, certainly as to "gunboats," the shallow-draft coastal and riverine craft.〔See, e.g., Eaton, Fernin, ''Governor on Trial: Claiborne in His Own Words, A Salon Publique'' presented at Pitot House, Bayou St. John, New Orleans, LA, November 7, 2011, p. 19, slide 27, listing the country's only functioning gunboats as being in New Orleans. All the rest were "in ordinary," i.e., rotting on dry land. http://www.academia.edu/1910804/Gov._Claiborne_in_his_own_words--a_salon_publique_at_Pitot_House_Bayou_St._John〕 Wounded December 28, 1814 by a Congreve rocket in one of the engagements which set the stage for the more famous Battle of New Orleans, Major Carmick died November 6, 1816. He is buried in Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2 in New Orleans.〔(Paul Purpura, ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'', February 2, 2012. )〕 File:StLouisNo2-Daniel Carmack-USMC-9-27-11 001.jpg File:Daniel Carmick-Plaque.png ==Namesake== In 1942, the destroyer USS ''Carmick'' (DD-493) was named in his honor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel Carmick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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