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    The capture of USS President was one of many naval actions fought at the end of the War of 1812. The frigate USS President tried to break out of New York...
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    The capture of USS Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of Boston Harbor, was fought on 1 June 1813, between the Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon and the...
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    Henry Hope (Royal Navy officer) (category Royal Navy personnel of the War of 1812)
    the capture of the American warship USS President. Hope was the eldest son of Charles Hope, the grandson of Charles Hope-Vere, and the nephew of the army...
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  • Fitz Babbitt (category United States Navy personnel of the War of 1812)
    1815) was an officer of the United States Navy who served during the War of 1812, and was killed during the capture of USS President. Babbitt was probably...
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  • 1800 that the British Royal Navy captured in 1815. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS President. USS President (1812), was a 12-gun American sloop...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere
    USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere was a battle between an American and British ship during the War of 1812, about 400 miles (640 km) southeast of Halifax...
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  • Timeline of the War of 1812 is a chronology of the War of 1812. List of War of 1812 Battles Bibliography of the War of 1812 Timeline of the American Revolution...
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    The Battle of Valparaíso, also called the Capture of USS Essex, was a naval action fought during the War of 1812. It took place off Valparaíso, Chile on...
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    vs USS Chesapeake on 1 June 1813 (the bloodiest such action of the war), HMS Phoebe vs USS Essex on 28 March 1814, HMS Endymion vs USS President on 15...
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  • text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here. Capture of USS President Capture of HMS Penguin...
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  • discover if any more ships could be captured there. Arriving near York's harbour, the American squadron dispatched USS Lady of the Lake to negotiate under a...
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    furnace to silence the two U.S. Navy warships, the sloop-of-war USS Louisiana and the schooner USS Carolina, that were harassing the army for 24 hours per...
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    vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of the British Royal Navy. This ensured American control of the lake for the rest of the...
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    stating that even if Plattsburgh was captured, any British troops there could not be supplied without control of the lake. When the battle took place...
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    control of the Great Lakes they were unable to receive supplies, resulting in the British failure to capture Plattsburgh in the Second Battle of Lake Champlain...
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    USS President was a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy, nominally rated at 44 guns; she was launched in April 1800 from...
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  • John Hayes (Royal Navy officer) (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    present at the capture of USS President, but Majestic was not closely engaged. After the end of the war, Hayes was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath...
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    of 1812: Capture of USS President – American frigate USS President (1800), commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British...
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  • Clarendon (1792 ship) (category Age of Sail merchant ships of England)
    to the United States as a cartel bringing prisoners of war from the British capture of USS President. Clarendon first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR)...
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  • Thumbnail for USS United States vs HMS Macedonian
    The capture of HMS Macedonian was a naval action fought near Madeira on 25 October 1812 between the heavy frigate USS United States, commanded by Stephen...
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    Stephen Decatur (category Commanders of the USS Constitution)
    to honor capture of HMS Macedonian by USS United States under his command. five U.S. Navy ships have been named USS Decatur. At the urging of Franklin...
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    1815 USS Hornet captured HMS Penguin in a short battle off Tristan da Cunha. It was one of several engagements that took place after the War of 1812 had...
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    The capture of HMS Cyane and HMS Levant was an action which took place at the end of the Anglo-US portion of the War of 1812. The two British warships...
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    -79.061111 The Battle of Fort George was fought during the War of 1812, in which the Americans defeated a British force and captured Fort George in Upper...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Essex vs HMS Alert
    A naval engagement between USS Essex and HMS Alert took place on 13 August 1812, in which the light frigate, USS Essex, 32 (commanded by Capt. David Porter...
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    Sailing-Master Johnson commanding, and a sloop-of-war, USS Alligator, serving as a tender. Gunboat No. 156, the flagship of the squadron, mounted one long 24-pounder...
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    Americans captured the British vessel after a one-sided cannonade, but the British merchant convoy escaped. USS Peacock was one of a class of three heavy...
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  • 1815, Decatur took advantage of a blizzard and left harbour in the frigate USS President, while the blockading squadron of the Royal Navy had been blown...
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  • was one of the original six frigates of the United States Navy. Captured by the Royal Navy in 1815. USS President (1812) was a 12-gun sloop-of-war that...
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    USS Boxer (LHD-4) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. She is the sixth U.S. ship to bear the name of the original HMS Boxer...
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