| LC control no. | n 88064218 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Brown, Guillermo, 1777-1857 |
| Variant(s) | Brown, William, 1777-1857 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000026161882 |
| Associated country | Argentina United States |
| Associated place | Buenos Aires (Argentina) |
| Located | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Birth date | 1777-06-22 |
| Death date | 1857-03-03 |
| Place of birth | Foxford (Ireland) |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires (Argentina) |
| Field of activity | Privateering Argentina--History--War of Independence, 1810-1817 Naval art and science |
| Affiliation | Argentina. Armada |
| Profession or occupation | Privateers Admirals |
| Found in | Ratto, H.R. Historia del almirante Brown, c1985: 10 pages after title page (Guillermo Brown) Diccionario biográfico argentino, 1938: page 181 (Brown, Guillermo; sailor; born 6/22/1777 in Foxford; died 3/14/1857) Corsarios argentinos, [2009]: page 4 of cover (This book details the exploits of Guillermo Brown and Hopólito Bouchard) Ancestry website, December 30, 2019: (Guillermo Brown; born June 22, 1777 in Foxford, County Mayo, Ireland; died March 2, 1857 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) Encyclopedia website, December 30, 2019: (William Brown; Guillermo Brown; born June 22, 1777 in Foxford, County Mayo, Ireland; died March 3, 1857; Irish privateer in the service of Buenos Aires during the Wars for Independence; came to Philadelphia at age nine; soon signed on a merchant ship and had become a captain before reaching age twenty; in 1809 he arrived in the Río de la Plata, where he played a major role in the Buenos Aires campaign against Montevideo and became one of the principal captains in the Buenos Aires privateering fleet; in 1815 led a privateering expedition into the Pacific in support of Chilean independence, and was joined by the squadron of another notable Buenos Aires privateer, Hipólito Bouchard, an expedition that harassed Spanish commerce along the Peruvian and Chilean coasts; following independence, was a leading officer in the Buenos Aires navy and led Argentine naval forces in the war against Uruguay (1825-1828) and, later, during the administration of Juan Manuel de Rosas, against the French and British blockades) <https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/brown-william-1777-1857> Enciclopedia Universal Europeo-Americana, 1907-1930: tomo IX, page 1009 (Guillermo Brown; born June 22, 1777 in Foxford, Ireland; died May 3, 1857 in Buenos Aires; Argentine admiral; was orphaned as a child in the United States; became involved in Argentina's War of Independence in 1814) The admiral from Mayo, c1995: title page (Almirante William Brown of Foxford, father of the Argentine navy) page 1, etc. (b. June 22, 1777; d. March 3, 1857) |
| Invalid LCCN | n 97031492 |
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