However, during the passage down the Orinoco River, Perry was stricken with yellow fever and died on board USS John Adams. In 1819 after protracted negotiation, the government of Venezuela granted all the demands of the United States on 11 August negotiated by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. The British regulars routed the Americans, however, and Morris and his crew had to burn the ship and escape overland to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Cornered in the Penobscot River in Maine by a British squadron under Captain Robert Barrie, Morris and his men went ashore with their cannons and, assisted by local militia attempted to hold off the British amphibious force in the Battle of Hampden. In 1814, he commanded USS Adams in raiding expeditions against British commerce. He was promoted to captain on March 3, 1813. In 1812, Morris was appointed first lieutenant of USS Constitution under the command of Isaac Hull during her battle with HMS Guerriere, in which action Morris was severely wounded. He served as a Navy Commissioner from 1823 to 1827, and as the Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs from 1844 to 1847. He was promoted to captain in March 1813. After being appointed a midshipman in July 1799, he served in the Quasi-War with France, First Barbary War, the Second Barbary War, and the War of 1812. Morris was born in Woodstock, Connecticut on July 26, 1784.
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