Navy Maverick: Uriah Phillips Levy

Plot

Best known as the US NAvy's first Jewish flag officer he was descended from Sephardic jews who had left Spain to avoid the Inquisition.

He was captured at sea by the Enlgish in 1814 and did not return to US until after the treaty of peace was signed.

He worked in the West Indes in command of a gunboat for awhile that suppressed slave trade and punished piracy.

He was promoted to Commander in 1837.