Browsing by Subject "War of 1812"
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(2007-07-14)Lacking sufficient funds to build and maintain a sizeable navy, the young United States was forced to employ privateers as a “stop-gap navy” in its struggles against stronger sea powers during the War for Independence, the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)In 1997 a group of archaeologists from Texas A&M University's Nautical Archaeology Program traveled to Wasaga Beach, Ontario to document the hull remains of the eighteenth-century schooner Nancy. In 1927, the schooner was ...
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(2020-01-08)On September 11, 1814, Captain George Downie of the British Royal Navy sailed a squadron of four ships and a dozen gunboats around Cumberland Head, on the New York shore of Lake Champlain, where Captain Thomas Macdonough ...