12 Facts About George Farragut

George Farragut fought during the American Revolutionary War and with the Continental Army in battles in the South.

Jorge Farragut Mesquida was born to Antonio Farragut and Juana Mesquida in Ciutadella on the island of Menorca.

George Farragut first went to sea at the age of 10, and left Menorca as a young man to join the Spanish merchant marine after studies in the Barcelona School of nautical studies.

George Farragut commanded a small vessel that traded goods between Veracruz and New Orleans which were both under Spanish rule as New Spain at the time, and ports in the Caribbean, namely Havana, Cuba.

George Farragut joined his new country at the beginning of the American Revolution, initially as a lieutenant in the South Carolina Navy, and anglicized his first name to George.

George Farragut fought the British at Savannah and was captured in the Siege of Charleston in 1780.

George Farragut's left arm was broken by a cannonball during the fighting in Charlestown.

Claiborne, a good friend of George Farragut's, became the new territory's first US governor.

George Farragut's son James, who would grow up to become Admiral David Farragut, was born in 1801.

In 1805, George Farragut moved to New Orleans, and his family followed, in a 1,700-mile flatboat adventure aided by hired rivermen, the young James George Farragut's first voyage.

George Farragut was visited by the younger Porter, who thanked him for his wife's care of his father and expressed sympathy for his loss.

Jorge George Farragut Mesquida died in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on June 4,1817, at age 62 of yellow fever.