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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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    Philip Broke (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    capturing the American frigate, USS Chesapeake. Broke was born at Broke Hall, Nacton, near Ipswich, the eldest son of Philip Bowes Broke, grandson of...
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    Chesapeake was a 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She was one of the original six frigates whose construction...
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    Provo Wallis (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    following the capture of USS Chesapeake by the frigate HMS Shannon during the War of 1812, the wounding of HMS Shannon's captain and the death of her first...
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    James Lawrence (category United States Navy personnel of the War of 1812)
    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...
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    Shannon 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...
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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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  • real events in the War of 1812: HMS Java against USS Constitution, and HMS Shannon against USS Chesapeake (Capture of USS Chesapeake). The fictional Aubrey...
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    Halifax Gravestones for casualties of HMS Shannon's Capture of USS Chesapeake, Royal Navy Burying Ground Battle of Trafalgar mural by William Lionel Wyllie...
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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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