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HMS Shannon, foreground, in action with USS Chesapeake, from a painting by Thomas Buttersworth HMS Shannon, depicted in 1844, de-masted and roofed over as a receiving ship near the end of her working life. Ink and wash drawing by Captain George Pechell Mends USS Chesapeake, modern painting by F. Muller.
The Chesapeake campaign was a strategic offensive of the Royal Navy designed to destroy American naval resources, vessels, forts, dockyards and arsenals; and impose a full naval blockade of the Atlantic Coast in order to seize ships and powder magazines from Charleston to New York. [1] The Chesapeake campaign battles: [NB 1] Rappahannock (3 ...
The Chesapeake Bay Flotilla was a motley collection of barges and gunboats that the United States assembled under the command of Joshua Barney, an 1812 privateer captain, to stall British attacks in the Chesapeake Bay which came to be known as the "Chesapeake campaign" during the War of 1812.
Notable single-ship engagements include USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812, [206] USS United States vs HMS Macedonian on 25 October, [207] USS Constitution vs HMS Java on 29–30 December, [77] [208] HMS Shannon vs USS Chesapeake on 1 June 1813 (the bloodiest such action of the war), [209] HMS Phoebe vs USS Essex on 28 March ...
During the War of 1812, 220 British naval sailors died in the Naval Hospital at Halifax. [28] The most famous of these were those that died as a result of the battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon. The marker for the Shannon was created in 1868, while the marker for the Chesapeake was created in 1966.
HMS Shannon was a 38-gun Leda-class frigate of the Royal Navy.She was launched in 1806 and served in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.She won a noteworthy naval victory on 1 June 1813, during the latter conflict, when she captured the United States Navy frigate USS Chesapeake in a bloody battle.
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James Lawrence (October 1, 1781 – June 4, 1813) was an officer of the United States Navy.During the War of 1812, he commanded USS Chesapeake in a single-ship action against HMS Shannon, commanded by Philip Broke.