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    The Little Belt affair was a naval battle on the night of 16 May 1811. It involved the United States frigate USS President and the British sixth-rate HMS Little...
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    Little Belt, and she took part in the then notorious Little Belt affair in North American waters. Later the Royal Navy bestowed the name "Little Belt"...
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    Chesapeake–Leopard affair is mentioned in the Boston Jacky novel of the Bloody Jack adventures series by L.A. Meyer. Little Belt affair Bibliography of early...
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  • captain. He is remembered chiefly for his command of HMS Little Belt, when the Little Belt affair occurred, just prior to the War of 1812. Bingham was born...
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    1811, President was at the center of the Little Belt affair; her crew mistakenly identified HMS Little Belt as HMS Guerriere, which had impressed an American...
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    claiming the other had fired initially. This action was the eponymous "Little Belt affair". British captain Arthur Batt Bingham maintained that the Americans...
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    public such as the Leander affair and the Chesapeake–Leopard affair. The British public were outraged by the Little Belt affair in which the larger USS President...
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  • commemorate HMS Little Belt, which was one of the protagonists in the Little Belt affair, or perhaps the affair itself. Little Belt was a brig of 173...
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    painted on the sail were in reference to the Little Belt affair, when USS President had fired on HMS Little Belt the year before. Captain John Rodgers of...
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  • Clement (1957). Henry Clay and the Art of American Politics. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 25. Hickey, Donald R. (April 2014). "'War Hawks':...
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    President was in a victorious engagement over a British vessel, HMS Little Belt, shortly before the War of 1812 was officially declared. Perry continued...
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  • constituency) John Creighton, American naval officer involved in the Little Belt affair in 1811 John Creighton (judge) (1721–1807), Canadian lawyer and judge...
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    President incurred only one wounded. The incident came to be known as the Little Belt Affair. It was one among many incidents between the United States and Britain...
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    John Rodgers in the frigate President. He was present during the Little Belt affair in May 1811, and during the engagement with HMS Belvidera on June...
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  • with the United Kingdom closed 1811 Mar 10 Henry letters 1811 May 16 Little Belt affair 1811 Nov 4 12th United States Congress convenes 1811 Nov 7 Battle...
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  • Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, 22 June 1807 (Naval Institute Press, 1996) See also Jonathon Hooks, "Redeemed Honor: The President‐Little Belt Affair and the Coming...
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    they were led by Black Hoof, a senior chief who had signed the treaty. Little Turtle, a war chief of the Miamis, who had also participated in the earlier...
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  • their battles with the Barbary pirates, and was later involved in the Little Belt affair prior to the War of 1812. The second ship to be so named by the Navy...
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    his party; his short stature and slight build earned him the nickname "Little P". Following Pitt's resignation in 1801, Perceval served as Solicitor General...
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    became known as the Little Belt affair, President, under the command of Captain John Rodgers, mistakenly identified HMS Little Belt as the frigate HMS Guerriere...
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  • Tecumseh's War Henry letters War hawks Rule of 1756 Monroe–Pinkney Treaty Little Belt affair Assassination of Spencer Perceval Declaration of war Theaters and...
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  • declaration of war, Lord Castlereagh, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs announced in Parliament that the Order in Council would be suspended. On...
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  • War (1784) Burr conspiracy (1804–1807) Chesapeake–Leopard affair (1807) Little Belt affair (1811) Railroad Wars (1853–1855) Sinking of the General Sherman...
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    the Little Belt affair, an event that is regarded as one of the causes of the War of 1812, and he testified during the Court of Inquiry on the Little Belt...
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    USS President mistook the sixth-rate HMS Little Belt for Guerriere and attempted to recover Diggio, leading to the Little Belt affair. The incident provoked a diplomatic...
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    citizens with American papers. Incidents such as the Chesapeake–Leopard affair outraged Americans. Congress imposed the embargo in direct response to these...
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