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John Shaw (1773 – September 17, 1823) was a captain in the early years of the United States Navy. ==Biography== He was born at Mountmellick, County Laois, Ireland, in 1773, and moved to the United States in 1790, where he settled in Philadelphia, and entered the merchant marine. Appointed Lieutenant in the United States Navy on August 3, 1798, he first served in ''Montezuma'' in Commodore Thomas Truxtun's squadron in the West Indies during the early part of the Quasi-War with France. On October 20, 1799, he was given command of the schooner ''Enterprise'' in which, during the next year, he captured seven armed French vessels and recaptured several American merchantmen. By the time he was relieved of command due to ill health in October 1800, he had made ''Enterprise'' one of the most famous vessels of the Navy. During the First Barbary War, Shaw commanded frigate ''Adams'' in the Mediterranean under Commodore John Rodgers from May to November 1804. Shaw helped suppress the 1811 German Coast Uprising. During the War of 1812, Shaw commanded the New Orleans naval post as well as the frigate ''United States''. Captain Shaw died at Philadelphia, where he was interred in the Christ Church Burial Ground, along with Benjamin Franklin and other signers of the Declaration of Independence. His epitaph reads: Shaw's daughter was married to Francis Hoyt Gregory (1780–1866), an officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812 through the Civil War, serving then as a Rear Admiral. 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「John Shaw (naval officer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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