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The Chesapeake–Leopard affair was a naval engagement off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on June 22, 1807, between the British fourth-rate HMS Leopard and the American frigate USS Chesapeake. The crew of Leopard pursued, attacked, and boarded the American frigate, looking for deserters from the Royal Navy. [1] Chesapeake was caught unprepared ...
On June 26, 1807, Decatur was appointed to command Chesapeake, a 38-gun frigate, along with command of all gunboats at Norfolk. [116] Chesapeake had just returned to Norfolk after repairs to damage incurred during the Chesapeake–Leopard affair. Barron had just been relieved of command following his court martial over the incident.
The Chesapeake Affair was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War. On December 7, 1863, Confederate sympathizers from the British colonies Nova Scotia and New Brunswick captured the American steamer Chesapeake off the coast of Cape Cod .
Macon's Bill Number 2, [1] which became law in the United States on May 14, 1810, was intended to force Britain and France to cease intercepting American merchant ships during the Napoleonic Wars.
HMS Leopard was a 50-gun Portland class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars , and was notable for the actions of her captain in 1807, which were emblematic of the tensions that later erupted in the War of 1812 between Britain and America.
The boarding party from Leopard arrested Martin, Strachan, Ware and Ratford. The Chesapeake–Leopard affair provoked an outcry for war from all parts of the United States and Jefferson later wrote: "The affair of the Chesapeake put war into my hand, I had only to open it and let havoc
The event, now known as the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, angered the American public and government and was a precipitating factor that led to the War of 1812. As a result of the affair, Chesapeake ' s commanding officer, James Barron, was court-martialed and the United States instituted the Embargo Act of 1807 against the United Kingdom.
The Non-Intercourse Act of March 1809 lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports.. Enacted in the last sixteen days of President Thomas Jefferson's presidency by the 10th Congress to replace the Embargo Act of 1807, the almost unenforceable law’s intent was to damage the economies of the United Kingdom and France.