<Li> Alliance vs. HMS Atalanta and Trepassey </Li> <Li> Alliance vs. Sybil </Li> <P> John Barry (March 25, 1745--September 12, 1803) was an officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and later in the United States Navy . He came to be widely credited as "The Father of the American Navy" (and shares that moniker with John Paul Jones and John Adams) and was appointed a captain in the Continental Navy on December 7, 1775 . He was the first captain placed in command of a U.S. warship commissioned for service under the Continental flag . </P> <P> After the war, he became the first commissioned U.S. naval officer, at the rank of commodore, receiving his commission from President George Washington in 1797 . </P>

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