Chesapeake Bay Flotilla
The Chesapeake Bay Flotilla was a collection of barges and gunboats that the United States assembled under the command of Joshua Barney, an 1812 privateer captain, to stall British attacks in the Chesapeake Bay, during the War of 1812. The Flotilla engaged the Royal Navy in several inconclusive battles before Barney was forced to scuttle the vessels themselves on August 22, 1814. The men of the Flotilla then served onshore in the defense of Washington, DC and Baltimore. It was disbanded on February 15, 1815, after the end of the war.
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Chesapeake Bay Flotilla
The Chesapeake Bay Flotilla was a collection of barges and gunboats that the United States assembled under the command of Joshua Barney, an 1812 privateer captain, to stall British attacks in the Chesapeake Bay, during the War of 1812. The Flotilla engaged the Royal Navy in several inconclusive battles before Barney was forced to scuttle the vessels themselves on August 22, 1814. The men of the Flotilla then served onshore in the defense of Washington, DC and Baltimore. It was disbanded on February 15, 1815, after the end of the war.
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The Chesapeake Bay Flotilla wa ...... 815, after the end of the war.
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Scuttlingand burning of Flotilla vessels
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United Kingdom
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1815-02-15
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11 ships of the line
34 frigates
52 other vessels
One 49-foot (15 m) sloop-rigged
One lookout boat and his flagship
One row-galley
One self-propelled floating battery USS Scorpion,
Seven 75-foot (23 m) barges
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