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Lagman</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">September 10, 1750<br /><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Pennsylvania" title="Province of Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_America" title="British America">British America</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">March 7, 1778<span style="display:none">(1778-03-07)</span> (aged 27)<br /><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span data-sort-value="Great Britain"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/23px-White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/35px-White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/46px-White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1008" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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style="padding-right: 1em">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data">Midshipman (GB)<br /><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US-O6_insignia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/US-O6_insignia.svg/23px-US-O6_insignia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/US-O6_insignia.svg/35px-US-O6_insignia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/US-O6_insignia.svg/46px-US-O6_insignia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="950" data-file-height="475" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Captain_(naval)" title="Captain (naval)">Captain</a> (US)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Commands</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/USS_Randolph_(1776)" title="USS Randolph (1776)">USS <i>Randolph</i></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Battles / wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1116488514">.mw-parser-output .treeview ul{padding:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .treeview li{padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none;list-style-image:none}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li{background:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Treeview-grey-line.png")no-repeat 0 -2981px;padding-left:21px;text-indent:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li:last-child{background-position:0 -5971px}.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>.mw-empty-elt:first-child+.emptyline,.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>li:first-child{background-position:0 9px}</style><div class="treeview"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Nassau" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Nassau">Battle of Nassau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Block_Island" title="Battle of Block Island">Battle of Block Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Barbados" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Barbados">Battle of Barbados</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Old English Text MT',serif"><b>†</b></span></a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Nicholas Biddle</b> (September 10, 1750 – March 7, 1778) was one of the first five <a href="/wiki/Captain_(naval)" title="Captain (naval)">captains</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Navy" title="Continental Navy">Continental Navy</a>, which was raised by the Continental Congress during the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>. Biddle was born in Philadelphia in 1750. He began sailing at the age of 13 and joined the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> when he was 20. In 1773, he sailed the Arctic with <a href="/wiki/Constantine_Phipps,_2nd_Baron_Mulgrave" title="Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave">Constantine Phipps</a> and <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson" title="Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson">Horatio Nelson</a>. When the Revolutionary War began in 1775, Biddle joined the Continental Navy and commanded several ships. In 1778 off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Barbados" title="Barbados">Barbados</a>, Biddle confronted <a href="/wiki/HMS_Yarmouth_(1745)" title="HMS Yarmouth (1745)">HMS <i>Yarmouth</i></a>, a 64-gun British warship. After a twenty-minute battle, Biddle's ship <a href="/wiki/USS_Randolph_(1776)" title="USS Randolph (1776)"><i>Randolph</i></a> suddenly exploded, killing him and most of his men. Four ships of the U.S. Navy have been <a href="/wiki/USS_Biddle" title="USS Biddle">named in his honor</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicholas_Biddle_(naval_officer)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nicholas Biddle was born in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> in 1750, one of nine children to William Biddle (1698–1756) of the <a href="/wiki/Biddle_family" title="Biddle family">Biddle family</a>, and Mary Scull (1709–1789).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcGrath20151_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGrath20151-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Biddle went to sea at the age of thirteen, as a ship's boy aboard a merchant vessel trading in the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indies</a>. In 1770, he joined the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> and served three years until resigning in 1773 to accompany <a href="/wiki/Constantine_Phipps,_2nd_Baron_Mulgrave" title="Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave">Captain Constantine Phipps</a> on his expedition to the Arctic Sea. While on this voyage, Biddle became acquainted with <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson" title="Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson">Horatio Nelson</a>, the future British admiral and fellow member of Phipps' expedition.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcGrath20152_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGrath20152-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="American_Revolutionary_War">American Revolutionary War</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicholas_Biddle_(naval_officer)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: American Revolutionary War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1775, Biddle, sympathizing with colonists who were opposed to British rule, returned to North America to offer his services to the State of <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>. With the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>, the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety placed Biddle in command of the armed galley <a href="/wiki/USS_Franklin_(1775)" title="USS Franklin (1775)"><i>Franklin</i></a>. In December 1775, Biddle was commissioned into the newly established Continental Navy and made captain of the 14-gun brig <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Doria_(1775_brig)" title="Andrew Doria (1775 brig)"><i>Andrew Doria</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcGrath20152_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGrath20152-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Biddle participated in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Nassau" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Nassau">expedition</a> against <a href="/wiki/New_Providence" title="New Providence">New Providence</a> and fought in the Continental Navy's <a href="/wiki/Action_of_6_April_1776" class="mw-redirect" title="Action of 6 April 1776">action</a> with <a href="/wiki/HMS_Glasgow_(1757)" title="HMS Glasgow (1757)">HMS <i>Glasgow</i></a> on April 6, 1776. Biddle was highly critical of the action, noting that the lack of signaling by his superior, Commodore <a href="/wiki/Esek_Hopkins" title="Esek Hopkins">Esek Hopkins</a>, led to a "helter skelter" action. Biddle quickly developed a reputation as an able captain by capturing numerous vessels, including British <a href="/wiki/Troopship" title="Troopship">troopships</a>, on later cruises. </p><p>One of his most exceptional campaigns occurred during a cruise of the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Banks_of_Newfoundland" title="Grand Banks of Newfoundland">Newfoundland Banks</a>; Biddle's crew was so successful in the taking of ships that by the time they returned to port, only five sailors were steering Biddle's flagship; the rest were crewing the <a href="/wiki/Prize_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Prize law">prizes</a> taken during the cruise. On June 6, 1776, Biddle was appointed by the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a> to command <a href="/wiki/USS_Randolph_(1776)" title="USS Randolph (1776)"><i>Randolph</i></a>, a 32-gun <a href="/wiki/Frigate" title="Frigate">frigate</a> then being built in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> as part of a plan to drastically expand the size and power of the American naval fleet. She was <a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_ship_launching" title="Ceremonial ship launching">launched</a> near the close of the year and sailed early in 1777. In September 1777, <i>Randolph</i> attained her first success by capturing <a href="/wiki/HMS_True_Briton_(1778)" title="HMS True Briton (1778)">HMS <i>True Briton</i></a> and her three-ship <a href="/wiki/Convoy" title="Convoy">convoy</a>. </p><p>On March 7, 1778, off <a href="/wiki/Barbados" title="Barbados">Barbados</a>, <i>Randolph</i> <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Barbados" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Barbados">engaged</a> the British 64-gun <a href="/wiki/Ship_of_the_line" title="Ship of the line">ship of the line</a> <a href="/wiki/HMS_Yarmouth_(1745)" title="HMS Yarmouth (1745)">HMS <i>Yarmouth</i></a>. Rather than trying to flee from the more heavily armed opponent, <i>Randolph</i> sailed into battle so the merchant fleet it was escorting could escape. An eyewitness reported the frigate held her own in the twenty-minute engagement, appearing, "to fire four or five broadsides to the <i>Yarmouth</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s one." After Biddle was wounded, <i>Randolph</i> blew up suddenly, killing all but four of the 305 souls on board, including Biddle. The loss of <i>Randolph</i> was a serious blow to the fledgling <a href="/wiki/Continental_Navy" title="Continental Navy">Continental Navy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAllen1913296_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAllen1913296-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAllen1913297_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAllen1913297-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAllen1913298_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAllen1913298-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His body was lost at sea and never recovered. </p><p>His brother, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Biddle" title="Edward Biddle">Edward Biddle</a>, was a staunch advocate for American independence, and his nephew, <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Biddle_(1786%E2%80%931844)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicholas Biddle (1786–1844)">Nicholas Biddle</a>, was an esteemed banker. Four ships of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> have been named <a href="/wiki/USS_Biddle" title="USS Biddle">USS <i>Biddle</i></a> in his honor. <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_Townsend_Brady" title="Cyrus Townsend Brady">Cyrus Townsend Brady</a>'s book <i>For Love of Country</i> is based partly on the life of Nicholas Biddle, in particular the <a href="/wiki/Battle_off_Barbados" title="Battle off Barbados">action between the <i>Randolph</i> and the <i>Yarmouth</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicholas_Biddle_(naval_officer)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nicholas Biddle appears in the video game <i><a href="/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_III" title="Assassin's Creed III">Assassin's Creed III</a></i> as the primary target of the "Naval Missions". A secret member of the Templar Order, Biddle is revealed to be conspiring with fellow Templars in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> to stage attacks on American shipping near <a href="/wiki/Nantucket" title="Nantucket">Nantucket</a> as a means of pressuring Congress to name him an Admiral, thus giving the Templars further control over the nation's fledging naval service. As per historical record, he dies aboard the <a href="/wiki/USS_Randolph_(1776)" title="USS Randolph (1776)">USS <i>Randolph</i></a> in 1778 after being bested in combat by <a href="/wiki/Ratonhnhak%C3%A9:ton" title="Ratonhnhaké:ton">Connor Kenway</a>. Biddle demands the right to <a href="/wiki/The_captain_goes_down_with_the_ship" title="The captain goes down with the ship">go down with his ship</a> and is subsequently killed when the <i>Randolph</i> is destroyed in an explosion of its gunpowder stores.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is voiced by <a href="/wiki/Fred_Tatasciore" title="Fred Tatasciore">Fred Tatasciore</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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href="#CITEREFAllen1913">Allen 1913</a>, p. 296.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAllen1913297-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAllen1913297_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAllen1913">Allen 1913</a>, p. 297.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAllen1913298-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAllen1913298_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAllen1913">Allen 1913</a>, p. 298.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Author's preface to <i>For Love of Country</i> (1898)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation 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