# @mdhistory on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CVvpqoEJgPc
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/19780539-mdhistory-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-11-01T19:13:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC) (@mdhistory) — https://gondola.cc/mdhistory

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In honor of #NationalAuthorsDay, we're highlighting a writer whose work is featured in our latest exhibition. One of the many new objects on display in "The Unfinished Revolution" is an original copy of John Hoxse’s "The Yankee Tar: An Authentic Narrative of the Voyages and Hardships of John Hoxse." 

First published in 1840, John Hoxse’s memoir traces his life as a sailor serving on a variety of vessels from slave trade ships to the United States Frigate Constellation. Hoxse served on the Constellation during the Quasi-War with France and experienced its battles with the French vessels, L’Insurgente and the L’Vengeance, in 1799 and 1800. Throughout his retelling of the naval battles, Hoxse’s work removes the glory of war and instead gives the reader a bloody and gory insight into naval warfare of the 19th century.

See "The Unfinished Revolution" this Thursday Nov. 4 for Free First Thursday at the Museum, 10 am-5 pm. Click on the "Museum Exhibitions" link in our bio for more information.

Image: “The Yankee Tar: An Authentic Narrative of the Voyages and Hardships of John Hoxse, and the Cruises of the U.S. Frigate Constellation and Her Engagements with the French Frigates Le Insurgente and Le Vengeance,” by John Hoxse (1774-1851), 1841, paper, Maryland Center for History and Culture, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Rare E323.H87 1841.

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