• Thumbnail for Capture of USS President
    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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  • 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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    HMS President, based at London's St Katharine Docks, to mark the bicentenary of the capture of USS President off New York harbor at the end of the War of...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Lake Erie
    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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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Plattsburgh
    April 1814, the Americans launched the corvette USS Saratoga of 26 guns and the schooner USS Ticonderoga of 14 guns (originally a part-completed steam vessel)...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    commanded by James Arbuthnot at time of capture; Captured by USS Wasp, commanded by Commodore Johnston Blakeley. USS President (sloop) |  United States Navy...
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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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    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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    Stephen Decatur (category Commanders of the USS Constitution)
    Macedonian and USS Constellation; sloop of war USS Ontario; brigs USS Epervier, USS Firefly, USS Flambeau and USS Spark; schooners USS Spitfire and USS Torch....
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  • Aetna and Meteor were present during the siege of Fort Bowyer in February 1815. When the British captured the fort, they discovered that it mounted three...
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    her second and final cruise under the command of William D. Dobson. On 1 June 1813, Shannon captured USS Chesapeake outside Boston Harbor and towed her...
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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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    HMS Cyane and HMS Levant fought USS Constitution on 20 February 1815, about 100 miles east of Madeira. Following exchanges of broadsides and musket fire,...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Fort George
    -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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    Naval Gold Medal (category Decorations of the Royal Navy)
    of HMS Shannon, he captured USS Chesapeake during the War of 1812 Sir James Gambier. Commanded HMS Defence on the Glorious First of June Sir Edward Hamilton...
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  • Thumbnail for Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor
    A British force was transported across Lake Ontario and attempted to capture the town, which was the principal dockyard and base for the American naval...
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