Editing Oliver Hazard Perry (section)

==Mission to Venezuela and death==
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In 1818 Perry purchased a large house on Washington Square in Newport which was built in 1750 for merchant Peter Buloid. The house remained in the Perry family until 1865 and now serves as an antique bookstore.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

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[[File:Oliver H Perry stripr of five2.jpg|thumb|{{center|Other stamps depicting Perry}}]]

In 1819, Perry sailed for the [[Orinoco River]], [[Venezuela]], aboard of the [[frigate]] {{USS|John Adams|1799|2}} with the frigate {{USS|Constellation|1797|2}} and the schooner {{USS|Nonsuch|1813|6}}, arriving on July 15 to discourage piracy, while still maintaining friendly relations with [[Republic of Venezuela]] and the [[United Provinces of South America|Republic of Buenos Aires]]. Shifting his flag to USS ''Nonsuch'', due to its shallower draft, Perry sailed upriver to [[Ciudad Bolívar|Angostura]] to negotiate an anti-piracy agreement with President [[Simón Bolívar]]. A favorable treaty was signed on August 11 with Vice President [[Francisco Antonio Zea]] in the absence of Bolivar (who was engaged in the liberation of [[Viceroyalty of New Granada|New Granada]]), but when the schooner started downriver, many of her crew, including Perry, had been stricken with [[yellow fever]].{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

Despite the crew's efforts to reach [[Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad]] for medical assistance, the commodore died on board USS ''Nonsuch'' on August 23, 1819, his 34th birthday, as the ship entered the [[Gulf of Paria]] and was nearing [[Port of Spain]].<ref>{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061024051556/http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/america/unitedstates/1783/1809/1809/perry-oh.htm Oliver Hazard Perry]}} Robinson Library accessed November 28, 2017.</ref> He was buried in [[Port of Spain]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oliver Hazard Perry |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/people/historical-figures/oliver-hazard-perry.html |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=public1.nhhcaws.local |language=en-US}}</ref>

His remains were later taken back to the United States in 1826 and interred in Newport, Rhode Island. Originally interred in the Old [[Common Burial Ground]], his body was eventually moved to Newport's [[Island Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite book| url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;sid=af7ec6e6a62cb051e355616f708c9a7f;rgn=full%20text;idno=AJA1974.0001.001;view=image;seq=0401| title = Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833–1905. ''Nooks and corners of the New England coast'', Rhode Island Cemeteries, p. 401.| year = 2005}}</ref>

[[Perry Street (Savannah, Georgia)|Perry Street]] in [[Savannah, Georgia]], is named in his honor.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cope |first=Tony |title=It's Not That Lincoln |publisher=The Abercorn Press |year=2016}}</ref>

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