USS Chesapeake

INTRODUCTION The naval battle of Valcour Island took place on Lake Champlain in the fall of 1776. The battle was fought between Benedict Arnold’s small fleet against Sir Guy Carleton’s superior British naval force. After gaining British naval superiority on the Lake Champlain, Carleton halted the British invasion and returned to Canada. Carleton himself cited in a letter to Lord Germain on October 14, 1776, “The season is so far advanced…whether any thing further can be done this year” as a…

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I held my breathe and gave out a sigh hopping the next hours to Virginia to our hotel will be better. I found myself doodling penguins and groundhogs in my journal, until I saw we were driving on one of the biggest bridges I have ever seen the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. That bridge always freaked me out, because of the such small walls. I hated to look at the sea sickening water below us. “Hey dad, I hope we don’t fall off!!” I yelled loudly. My dad scolded me on how we were suppose to be quite on…

pursued the American ship, Chesapeake, all the way to off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia. The purpose of this chase was to pursue deserters from the British Royal Navy whom were believed to have escaped to the ship, Chesapeake. When Leopard encountered Chesapeake, Humphreys ordered commodore James Barron of Chesapeake to stand down and to allow his ship to be searched. Barron refused, so Humphreys replied by having Leopard fire broadsides into Chesapeake’s hull. Due to Chesapeake being…

his time in the Mediterranean he also served on the USS New York. While aboard the USS New York, Decatur was instructed to return to the United States and take command of the USS Argus. He sailed this ship across the Atlantic Ocean and handed it over to Lieutenant Isaac Hull. He then took command of the USS Enterprise which was a 12-gun schooner. On December 23rd, 1803 the USS Enterprise with Stephan Decatur as its captain, alongside of the USS Constitution, captured the ketch Mastico after…

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into America’s Civil War, or even that they would be conquered by the ‘Great America’ once America was no longer divided. All these fears were heightened during the Trent Affair, the Chesapeake Affair, St. Alban’s Affair, and the Fenian Raids.…

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The War of 1812 is one of the most forgotten wars of the United States, it lasted for over two years, and ended in a stalemate. It however did confirm Americans Independence and this would forever stay the same. The United States failed to capture Canada during the war, on the other hand the British army got stopped when they attempted to capture Baltimore and New Orleans. There were a number of American victories which American vessels proved themselves to the British. In the year of 1800…

a very historic battle because it was the first battle in naval warfare that was between ironclad ships. It was a very significant event that took place in the Civil War when the Confederate States ship, the CSS Virginia, and the North’s ship, the USS Monitor, fought in the Battle of Hampton Roads. It was also the only real significant naval battle in the American Civil War. The CSS Virginia…