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	Battle of Lake Erie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As HMS Detroit had suffered some damage, Niagara was able to capture it, along with the other five British ships.
		Due to the outcome of the battle, Britain retreated from Detroit and lost control of Lake Erie for the remainder of the war.
		HMS Detroit (flag) - 2-24pdr, 1-18pdr*, 6-12pdr, 8-9pdr, 1-24pdr carronade, 1-18pdr carronade
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Erie (749 words)

	Encyclopedia: Detroit (disambiguation) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Detroit usually refers to Detroit, Michigan and is derived from DÃ©troit (pronounced Day-twa), the French word for strait.
		Detroit Beach is an unincorporated community in Monroe County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
		Metro Detroit is the American metropolitan area consisting of nine counties including the cities of Detroit, Flint, Ann Arbor, Pontiac, and other outlying cities, villages, and townships in the U.S. state of Michigan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Detroit-(disambiguation) (521 words)

	TALL TREASURE: HMS Detroit replica ship almost ready for public viewing next month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The HMS Detroit will be 207 feet from stern to bowsprit, nine feet longer than the USS Brig Niagara of 2001's Sail Detroit.
		That was the end of the HMS Detroit, until a group of tall ship enthusiasts in Amherstburg got the idea to re-create the ship in 1984.
		The Detroit will be towed from Wheatley to Amherstburg in early August, to the grounds of the former navy yards where the original Detroit was built.
	www.freep.com /news/locway/ship31_20020731.htm (699 words)

	Project HMS Detroit - The Battle of Lake Erie
		The H.M.S. Detroit, however, was only in slightly better condition while the Niagara had gone practically unscathed due to her distance from the main action.
		As the Detroit's sailors struggled to bring the ship around with its tattered sails and rigging, the Queen Charlotte was also aiming to pass the Detroit and was at the Detroit's stern on the starboard side.
		The Detroit, along with the Queen Charlotte and the Lawrence were mothballed with their masts removed and finally scuttled.
	www.x5ca.net /~hmsdet/battle.html (1217 words)

	General Brock.com — HMS Detroit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The HMS Detroit was captured by the Americans during the Battle of Lake Erie.
		Launched in August 1813, the H.M.S. Detroit was the last and largest ship built at the Navy Yard, Amherstburg, Ont. King George III commissioned the "Detroit" to be built in honor of a brief capture of Fort Detroit (City of Detroit).
		The flags from the H.M.S. Detroit are held at the Annapolis Naval Academy as spoils of war.
	www.generalbrock.com /level2/articles/news/hmsdetroit.htm (542 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rouge Rougeroozh, river, c.30 mi (50 km) long, rising in S Michigan and winding S and SE to the Detroit River at the city of River Rouge.
		Dearborn and part of Detroit also lie on the river, which carries much of the raw material used by Detroit's industries.
		In the War of 1812 the U.S.S. Enterprise defeated the H.M.S. Boxer southeast of the island.
	www.encyclopedia.com /search.asp?target=HMS+Detroit&rc=10&fh=14&fr=11 (529 words)

	hms_detroit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		HMS Detroit, counterpart to Niagara The Kalmar Nyckel The Bounty Replica The Society for the Preservation of the H.M.S Bounty HM Barque Endeavour The USS Constitution The USS Constellation The...
		H.M.S. Detroit The last ship to be built at the Navy Yard in Amherstburg was the H.M.S. Detroit.
		HMS Detroit HMS Devastation HMS Devastation (1871) HMS Devonshire HMS Devonshire (C39) HMS Devonshire (D02) HMS Dido HMS Dido (F104) HMS Didon HMS Diomede (F16) HMS Dorsetshire HMS Dragon HMS Dreadnought HMS...
	hms_detroit.networklive.org (306 words)

	Fort Amherstburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Amherstburg was built at the mouth of the Detroit River to replace Fort Detroit, which Britain was required to cede to the United States of America in 1796 as a result of the Jay Treaty.
		After General Hull retreated back to Fort Detroit, British General Isaac Brock and the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh met at Fort Amherstburg to plan the attack of Fort Detroit.
		After losing the Battle of Lake Erie (including the flagship HMS Detroit, which was built at Fort Amherstburg), the British/Canadians destroyed the fort and retreated.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Amherstburg (200 words)

	Project HMS Detroit - The Ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		King George III commissioned the "Detroit" to be built in honor of a brief capture of Fort Detroit (City of Detroit).
		The Detroit along with the entire fleet were captured by U.S. Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry aboard the U.S. Flagship Niagara on September 10, 1813 in The Battle of Lake Erie at Put In Bay.
		The flags from the H. Detroit are held at the Annapolis Naval Academy as spoils of war.
	www.hmsdetroit.org (504 words)

	Detroit Free Press - Local News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Detroit Police homicide investigators were questioning two suspects with possible ties to a slaying at an east-side gas station, an official said Tuesday evening.
		Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was joined by more than 200 young people in front of the Spirit of Detroit statue Monday as he accepted a $20,000 grant from the Colgate-Palmolive Co. for his Mayor's Time initiative.
		Detroit police are determining whether an off-duty officer acted improperly when he fatally shot a man with his police-issued weapon during an alleged robbery Sunday.
	www.freep.com /backindex/2002/08/03/locway.htm (688 words)

	Battle of Lake Erie
		On September 10, British Commodore Robert Heriot Barclay[?], in his flagship the HMS Detroit, met Perry near Put-in-Bay, Ohio.
		However, Perry was able to transfer command to the USS Niagara, a ship equal in size and strength to the Lawrence, but which had not yet been engaged in the battle.
		After the battle, Perry sent his famous message to General William Henry Harrison, "We have met the enemy and they are ours." Due to the outcome of the battle, Britain retreated from Detroit and lost control of Lake Erie for the remainder of the war.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Battle_of_Lake_Erie.html (237 words)

	Project HMS Detroit - NEWS
		Project H.M.S. Detroit resides in the historic Gordon House on the grounds of the King's Navy Yard Park in the heart of Amherstburg, Ontario.
		It was in the Navy Yard that the original H.M.S. Detroit was built, as the British Flag Ship, in honour of a brief capture of Fort Detroit.
		Judy Mellor stated that once officials with Project H.M.S. Detroit explained the vast potential and benefits the community would reap to the CIBC community leaders, the financial institution was eager to assist in any way they could.
	www.x5ca.net /~hmsdet/public_html/news.html (1647 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He moved (1887) to Detroit, and after he entered (1903) into partnership with Henry Ford, he became vice president and general manager of the Ford Motor Company.
		Of the minor Gascon nobility, he came to America in 1683 to seek his fortune and lived for a time at Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal, N.S.) and then on a grant of land in present-day...
		Grosse Pointe Grosse Pointegrōs point, name referring to five residential suburbs of Detroit, Wayne co., SE Mich. They include the city of Grosse Pointe (1990 pop.
	www.encyclopedia.com /search.asp?target=HMS+Detroit&rc=10&fh=15&fr=11 (542 words)

	The Software Studio : /Society/History/By_Topic/Maritime/Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		HMS Bounty Preservation Society - History of HMS Bounty (today's ship and the original), her crew, romances aboard the ship and the mandate of the Society for Bounty's Future.
		HMS Detroit - constructing a full size replica of the HMS Detroit which led Commodore Robert Hariot Barclay's Fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie.
		HMS Fowey(24) Ship's Company & Marines - A hands-on maritime living-history educational organization dedicated to an accurate and dignified portrayal of the Gallant Seamen and Marines of the British Royal Navy 1775-1781.
	portal.thesoftwarestudio.com /Society/History/By_Topic/Maritime/Ships/index2.html (341 words)

	USS Adams
		The British armed the prize and commissioned her as HMS Detroit.
		She and HMS Caledonia gave the British undisputed control of Lake Erie.
		Caledonia made it safely to the temporary American base at Black Rock, but Detroit, owing to light wind, was swept away by the Niagra River's strong current and was forced to anchor within range of British guns.
	www.multied.com /NAVY/Brigatines/Adams.html (1108 words)

	1812 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		August 16 - War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
		October 9 - War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships; the HMS Detroit and the HMS Caledonia.
		October 13 - War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights - On the Niagara frontier in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaerof are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock (although he dies during the battle).
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/1/18/1812.html (560 words)

	Detroit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The first Detroit, was built by the British at Maiden, Canada, in 1813 and captured by the Americans during the Battle of Lake Erie 10 September 1813.
		She was so badly damaged that she was taken into Put-in-Bay, Ohio, to prevent her sinking.
		The ex-H.M.S. Detroit spent the winter of 1813-1814 in Put-In-Bay and then brought to Presque Isle until the declaration of peace.
	members.cox.net /tdshiflett/ships/data/sow/detroit_sow.html (206 words)

	USS Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Also, a newly constructed 200-ton brig named Adams was purchased during the summer of 1812 by General William Hull[?], the Army commander at Detroit, Michigan to add to the defenses of that forward outpost.
		However, before the ship could be armed Hull surrendered her along with Detroit on 16 August 1812.
		Caledonia made it safely to the temporary American base at Black Rock[?], but Detroit, owing to light wind, was swept away by the Niagara River's strong current and was forced to anchor within range of British guns.
	www.eurofreehost.com /us/USS_Adams.html (410 words)

	HMS Detroit Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/HMS_Detroit (346 words)

	Crawford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In their 1990 study, HMS Detroit: The Battle for Lake Erie, Robert and Thomas Malcomson analyze the tactical imperatives imposed by the mix of long and short guns in the opposing fleets.
		This overview of one aspect of the historiographic debate on the Battle of Lake Erie demonstrates the continuing relevance of Roosevelt’s method in studying the naval combat history of the War of 1812.
		Contrast, for example, the accounts of the engagement between USS Wasp and HMS Reindeer in Roosevelt, Naval War of 1812 (Annapolis, 1987), 293—97, and in Stephen W. Duffy, Captain Blakely and the Wasp: The Cruise of 1814 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001), 202—16.
	www.ijnhonline.org /volume1_number1_Apr02/article_crawford_roosevelt_1812.doc.htm (2875 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Adams-a newly constructed 200-ton brig-was purchased during the summer of 1812 by General William Hull, the Army commander at Detroit (now in Michigan) to add to the defenses of that forward outpost.
		However, before the ship could be armed Hull sur rendered her along with Detroit on 16 August 1812.
		Caledonia made it safely to the temporary American base at Black Rock, but Detroit, owing to light wind, was sw ept away by the Niagara River's strong current and was forced to anchor within range of British guns.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/sail/adams.htm (249 words)

	Links: Maritime History
		HM Bark Endeavour Foundation, a replica of James Cook's ship.
		Mutiny on the HMS Bounty 1787, by Paul J. Lareau.
		The objective of the project is to re-construct the HMS Detroit, the last war ship built at the Navy Yard at Amherstburg, Ontario, in 1813.
	www.bruzelius.info /Nautica/Links/Maritime_History.html (1352 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A, 1991, Navy Department, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division, Washington, D.C. The brig, frigate and screw gunboat named ADAMS all honored John Adams, the second President of the United States and an ardent champion of the Navy.
		CALEDONIA made it safely to the temporary American base at Black Rock, but DETROIT, owing to light wind, was swept a by the Niagara River's strong current and was forced to anchor within range of British guns.
		Elliot brought all his guns to his engaged side and continued the cannonade until his supply of ammunition was exhausted.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/USN/misc/adams2.txt (278 words)

	Other Tall Ship Information
		HMS Bounty, built in Lunenberg, NS, where Rose was built.
		The Society for the Preservation of the H.M.S Bounty
		HMS Bounty, the ship built in 1979 for the Mel Gibson remake.
	www.tallshiprose.org /info/links.html (350 words)

	War of 1812 - U.S. Commodore Chauncey at Burlington Bay by Robert Malcomson ...
		His other books related to the Great Lakes War are HMS Detroit: The Battle for Lake Erie and Sailors of 1812: Memoirs and Letters of Naval Officers on Lake Ontario.
		But Commander William Mulcaster used HMS Royal George to cover his commodore, preventing Chauncey’s General Pike from making its killing strike and allowing Yeo time to recover and begin his mad dash toward the head of the lake.
		The Americans followed, but due to the rough sea and the poor sailing qualities of most of the squadron, their vessels proceeded in a disorderly fashion, most of them apparently unable to get involved in the fighting.
	www.warof1812.ca /chauncey.htm (1285 words)

	Napoleon
		A young officer of impressive physical stature and who possessed a fierce sense of personal honour, Lawrence had won three ship-to-ship actions against the British in the previous year and was on his way to becoming some sort of a navy hero, being extremely popular among the ranks.
		The flagship of their fleet was the newly constructed 126-foot long brig HMS Detroit.
		If Detroit could be counted on, the rest of his ships could not be expected to win the day on their own and Barclay knew this.
	www.napoleon.org /en/reading_room/articles/files/page_naval_part2.asp (4725 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - USS Niagara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Perry's flagship was Lawrence, named for his good friend Captain James Lawrence, who had died on June 1 in the battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon, and whose dying words—"Don't give up the ship"—were emblazoned on a pennant flying from the masthead.
		Lawrence took the brunt of the fighting from Detroit and Queen Charlotte, and by about 1430 had suffered 84 dead and wounded.
		Two Ships, two Brigs one Schooner and one Sloop." The battle at Put-in Bay was a turning point in the War of 1812, for in securing control of Lake Erie, Perry removed the British threat to the Northwest Territory.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_064400_ussniagara.htm (705 words)

	Ships Maritime By Topic History Society English España (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		HMS Victory at the battle of trafalgar 1805.
		History of HMS Bounty (today's ship and the original), her crew, romances aboard the ship and the mandate of the Society for Bounty's Future.
		A son's tribute to the battleship HMS Nelson, and to his father, Albert Knight who served on board.
	www.amigar.com /buscador/Top/1010128674-10000001 (1335 words)

	Battle of Lake Erie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The American ships in the harbor were finally able to leave, and throughout August, Oliver Perry prepared for the inevitable battle while keeping a close eye on the British ships at Detroit.
		On September 10, British Commodore Robert Heriot Barclay, in his flagship HMS Detroit, met Captain Oliver Perry near Put-in-Bay, Ohio.
		After the war, the U.S. Navy intentionally sank both Lawrence and Niagara in Lake Erie; the battle damage they had suffered was too extensive to repair.
	t3.preservice.org /T0402023/Battle.htm (513 words)

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