![]() Byron had orders from Admiral Sawyer, commander of the British North American Station at Halifax, to intercept the French privateer Marengo, expected to sortie from New London, Connecticut. ![]() She could only be British, probably out of Halifax or Bermuda, and she was standing toward him.Īt nearly the same moment, the officer of the watch aboard His Majesty’s 36-gun frigate Belvidera informed Captain Richard Byron that a lookout had caught sight of the upper sails of five ships in the southwest. Rodgers could hardly believe his good luck. Before long it was plain the stranger was a frigate sailing alone. The sails of a large ship came immediately into view. Commodore John Rodgers stepped quickly on deck and took a well-used bronze telescope from a binnacle drawer. It was six o’clock in the morning on June 23, 1812, and the 44-gun heavy frigate was sailing in latitude 39☂6’ north, and longitude 71☁0’ west, one hundred miles southwest of Nantucket Shoals. “SAIL HO!” CRIED a lookout from the main masthead of the USS President. ![]() ![]() “If our first struggle was that of our infancy, this last was that of our youth and the issue of both, wisely improved, may long postpone if not forever prevent a necessity for exerting the strength of our manhood.” ![]() įor Mary, Mark, Alex, Tyler, and Kay with love CHAPTER TWO - Free Trade and Sailors’ RightsĬHAPTER THREE - Jefferson’s Embargo and the Slide Toward WarĬHAPTER FIVE - The United States Declares WarĬHAPTER SEVEN - The Constitution and the GuerriereĬHAPTER EIGHT - Ripe Apples and Bitter Fruit: The Canadian InvasionĬHAPTER NINE - Canadian Disasters AccumulateĬHAPTER ELEVEN - The Constitution and the JavaĬHAPTER THIRTEEN - Napoleon and AlexanderĬHAPTER FOURTEEN - The Canadian Invasion ResumesĬHAPTER FIFTEEN - The Chesapeake and the ShannonĬHAPTER SIXTEEN - Raids in Chesapeake BayĬHAPTER NINETEEN - The War at Sea in 1813ĬHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - British and American War PlansĬHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - The British BlockadeĬHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - The War at Sea Continues in 1814ĬHAPTER TWENTY-SIX - Negotiations Begin at GhentĬHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR - From Temporary Armistice to Lasting Peace: The Importance. ![]()
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