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	Battle of Lake Erie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on September 10, 1813 in Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the War of 1812.
		Lawrence faced an unfavourable wind and was destroyed in the course of the battle with four-fifths of its crew killed or wounded.
		In 1875, Lawrence was raised and moved to Philadelphia, where it was displayed at the 1876 Centennial Exposition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Erie (855 words)

	James Lawrence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the War of 1812, he commanded the USS Chesapeake in battle against the HMS Shannon.
		From the beginning of the War of 1812, Lawrence and Hornet cruised actively, capturing the privateer Dolphin in July 1812.
		Several places are named for Captain Lawrence, notably Lawrence County, Missouri, Lawrence County, Ohio, Lawrence County, Alabama and Lawrenceville, Georgia; both Lawrence Township, New Jersey and its Lawrenceville neighborhood are named for Lawrence, and there is a Captain James Lawrence Elementary School in his birthplace of Burlington, New Jersey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Lawrence (546 words)

	USS Lawrence
		The first Lawrence, a brig built at Presque Isle (Erie), Pa., by Adam and Noah Brown under the supervision of Sailing Master Daniel Dobbins and Capt. Oliver H. Perry, was launched 24 May 1813.
		Lawrence and the other ships of Perry's squadron were held at Erie both by British blockade and lack of crews, until 1 August, when the British squadron retired.
		The property of Erie Station was disposed of by auction in 1826 and Lawrence was purchased by Benjamin H. Brown of Rochester, X.Y. She was resold to Capt. George Miles of Elrie.
	www.multied.com /navy/Brigatines/lawrence.html (323 words)

	Learn more about List of ships of the United States Navy in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		USS Buffalo (1892, CL 99, CL 110, SSN 715)
		USS Enterprise (1775, 1776, 1799, 1831, CV 6, CVN 65)
		USS \Yorktown (CV 5, CV 10, CG 48)
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_ships_of_the_united_states_navy.html (903 words)

	List of ships of the United States Navy
		USS Princeton (1842, 1852, 1898, CVL-23, CV-37, CG-59)
		USS Shark (1821, 1861, SS-8, SP-534, SS-174, SS-314, SSN-591
		USS Somers (1813, 1842, 1898, DD-301, DD-381, DDG-34)
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_ships_of_the_united_states_navy.html (503 words)

	USN Ships--USS Macdonough (Destroyer # 9)
		USS Macdonough, a 400-ton Lawrence class destroyer built at Weymouth, Massachusetts, was commissioned in September 1903.
		Over the next decade and a half she operated along the U.S. Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico area, was occasionally in reserve, and in 1913-1914 made summer cruises for the Massachusetts Naval Militia.
		USS Macdonough was named in honor of Commodore Thomas Macdonough (1783-1825), whose career included command of U.S. Navy forces on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/dd9.htm (649 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - USS Niagara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		USS Niagara was one of two sister ships built under the supervision of Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry, who was given responsibility for the all but nonexistent Lake Erie fleet during the War of 1812.
		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.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_064400_ussniagara.htm (705 words)

	National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC
		In the battle, Perry's flagship, the USS Lawrence, was severely damaged and four-fifths of her crew killed or wounded.
		USS Arizona (BB-39) [Pennsylvania class] A lead ship of the honor escort for President Wilson's trip to France in 1918, she was on Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft appeared just before 8:00 am on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
		USS Missouri (BB-63) [Iowa class] The fourth USS Missouri was the last battleship completed by the United States; she was laid down January 6, 1941 by New York Naval Shipyard.
	www.naqt.com /YouGottaKnow/american-warships.html (969 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.
		Nonetheless, Lawrence was confident in his own ability and in the quality of his men and thus decided to face Broke.
		Lawrence corrected course as best he could but his ship was hit badly and he was himself wounded in the thigh by a musket ball.
	www.napoleon.org /en/reading_room/articles/files/page_naval_part2.asp (4725 words)

	Wikinfo \| Battle of Lake Erie
		The Battle of Lake Erie was fought on September 10, 1813, during the War of 1812.
		Barclay's six ships outweighed and outgunned Perry's nine, including Perry's flagship the USS Lawrence; the Lawrence faced an unfavourable wind and was destroyed in the course of the battle.
		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.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Battle_of_Lake_Erie (303 words)

	US People--Lawrence, James (1781-1813)
		James Lawrence was born in Burlington, New Jersey, on 1 October 1781.
		Engraving of the medal authorized by the United States Congress in honor of Captain Lawrence's 24 February 1813 victory in the action between USS Hornet and HMS Peacock.
		Photograph taken during the 1940s of the double house in Burlington, New Jersey, where James Lawrence was born on 1 October 1781.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-l/j-lawrnc.htm (904 words)

	Timeline 1811-1820
		1812 May 11, British PM Spencer Perceval was shot by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the House of Commons.
		1812 Aug 19, The USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, got its name when it defeated the British warship Guerriere off Nova Scotia in a slugfest of broadsides, when cannonballs were said to have bounced off her sides.
		Lawrence was buried with honors on Jun 8 and his remains were later sent to NYC for burial in Trinity churchyard.
	timelines.ws /1811_1820.HTML (15223 words)

	Lake Erie : Battle of Lake Erie : War of 1812 : Napoleonic Wars
		This was a fierce and bloody naval battle that occurred when America set out to end the threat of a British seaborne invasion on its left flank by seizing control of Lake Erie.
		One of the first losses was Perry's flagship, the USS Lawrence, which was crippled and surrendered, but the commander had already transferred to the USS Niagara.
		The effect of the battle of Lake Erie was to force Britain to pull its troops out of Detroit and withdraw to Canada.
	www.napoleonguide.com /battle_lakeerie.htm (187 words)

	Whatever Happened?
		USS AMBERJACK (SS-219), was presumed lost on 3-22-43.
		USS BALTIMORE in the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898.
		USS ARGONAUT (SM1), and his country, in action with the enemy on 1-11-43.
	members.cox.net /cpopina/whathapp.htm (5168 words)

	Chapter 6: The War of 1812
		By 1812 the westerners were convinced that their problems could best be solved by forcing the British out of Canada.
		In March 1812 it had tried to place the Army's supply system on a more adequate footing by establishing a Quartermaster Department on the military staff in place of the inefficient and costly military agent system.
		The conduct of the war in 1812 and 1813 revealed deficiencies in the administration of the War Department that would plague the American cause to the end.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/amh/amh-06.htm (8946 words)

	Historic Naval Ships Visitors Guide - USS Hornet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The veteran Essex-class carrier USS Hornet (CV-12, CVA-12, CVS-12) is the eighth and most distinguished namesake in a long line of U.S. Navy warships with proud naval histories, beginning with the first Hornet in 1775.
		Third Hornet, under the legendary Captain Lawrence, sank the British warships Peacock and Penguin in the War of 1812.
		USS Hornet is a National Historic Landmark and a State Historical Landmark.
	www.hnsa.org /ships/hornet.htm (426 words)

	navychronology1861b
		23 USS Release and Yankee engaged Confederate batteries at the mouth of Potomac Creek, Virginia.
		Though the battle was inconclusive, Captain Levin M. Powell of USS Potomac noted one result that could be bothersome to Union naval forces: "The caliber and long range of the rifled cannon [of Florida].
		USS Jamestown, Commander Green, captured Confederate sloop Havelock near Cape Fear, North Carolina.
	www.usnlp.org /navychronology/1861b.html (7782 words)

	Robert M. McCann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		LAWRENCE -- Robert M. McCann, 60, died Wednesday at the VA Boston Healthcare System.
		McCann served in the Marine Corps on the USS Constitution as an 1812 Marine Detachment.
		Memorials may be made to the E. Stanley Wright Museum, Box 1212, 77 Center St., Wolfeboro, NH 03894 or the USS Constitution Museum, Box 1812, Boston, MA 02129.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20030412/OB_003.htm (151 words)

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		The USS "Essex" defeats and captures the British vessel Alert.
		The USS "Chesapeake" is attacked and captured by the HMS "Shannon." The "Shannon," which was a 52-gun frigate, clearly outclasses the "Chesapeake"; but Captain Lawrence, the commander of the "Chesapeake," is goaded into going to battle with the "Shannon." Lawrence is killed in the fight.
		The USS "President" defeats three British vessels off the coast of Ireland.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Congress/7543/1812war.html (855 words)

	Surrender of HMS Seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Over the centuries, navies around the world have observed a hallowed tradition: The commanding officer of a warship at sea should never surrender his ship to the enemy.
		In June 1813, Captain James Lawrence commanded USS Chesapeake during a single-ship duel with HMS Shannon off Boston Harbor.
		Mortally wounded during the battle, Lawrence was carried below, where he repeatedly urged his crew, "Don’t give up the ship." Lawrence’s immortal plea implies fighting to the last man or perhaps scuttling, but never surrendering.
	www.thehistorynet.com /wwii/blsurrenderseal (1090 words)

	Military Leaders - LIVE AND INTERNET AUCTION PART I (6/25/02)
		On June 1, 1813, commanding a new and untrained crew on the frigate U.S.S. Chesapeake off Boston, Lawrence engaged the H.M.S. Shannon, with the best-trained crew in the Royal Navy.
		Mortally wounded, Lawrence shouted, "Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks!" True to his words, every officer in the Chesapeake's chain of command fought until he was either killed or wounded.
		Her only action of war was in October 1812 when she engaged HMS Frolic in battle.
	www.alexautographs.com /l-mili.htm (5504 words)

	St. Lawrence River
		Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Science has brought together researchers at the University of Ottawa and from industry to study water quality of the St. Lawrence.
		The dominate coastal small craft during the colonial period was the shallop, a keeled, undecked sailing and rowing galley that sometimes included a small cuddy cabin, usually rigged with one mast but sometimes two.
		During the War of 1812 a British fleet of six large vessels was defeated by Oliver Hazard Perry on Lake Erie.
	www.vsr.cape.com /~powens/riverhistory.htm (6421 words)

	Sackets Harbor, NY \| A New York State Heritage Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Following the outbreak of war between the United States and Great Britain in June 1812, Sackets Harbor became the center of American naval and military activity for the upper St. Lawrence Valley and Lake Ontario.
		In December 1814, the Treaty of Ghent officially ended the War of 1812, and the Lake Ontario fleet was placed in storage at Shiphouse Point.
		The 1913 Centennial Park portion of the battlefield was recognized as early as 1866 as a special plot of land to be set aside to honor all the military personnel who had fought and died in the War of 1812.
	www.sacketsharborny.com /battlefield.html (809 words)

	A History of Ships Named Enterprise
		USS Enterprise was forced to jettison her armament in order to escape.
		USS Enterprise might easily have been sunk had it not been for the anti-aircraft gunfire of the battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57), which shot down a record 26 aircraft that day, a record which still stands.
		Planes from the USS Enterprise, the USS Essex (CV-9), the USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Cabot (CVL-28), and USS Franklin (CV-13) sink the battleship Musashi.
	starchive.cs.umanitoba.ca /?SNE (6524 words)

	Thoroughbred Figures - 15mm Age of Sail kits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		USS Wasp type with a mix of 22 guns and carronades.
		Single masted with a mix of 12 carronades and guns.
		Naval Crewmen 1812 - pack of 20 crew in various poses
	www.thoroughbredmodels.com /tbred_1812.html (327 words)

	15 Star Flag - (1795-1818) (U.S.)
		A very pertinent, very clear painting of the Battle of Lake Erie (September 10,1813) [also known as the Battle of Put-in-Bay] shows Commodore Perry leaving the USS Lawrence for the USS Niagara in a small boat flying a 15 stripe flag with three horizontal non-staggered rows of five stars.
		In a painting of the H.M.S. Shannon and USS Chesapeake entering Halifax, Nova Scotia, (June 1813) the Chesapeake clearly wears a U.S. flag with three non-staggered horizontal rows of five stars under the British White ensign.
		I would conclude that the 15 star flag with 5 staggered rows of 3 stars each was definitely in use on the Great Lakes, and the arrangement of 3 non-staggered rows of 5 stars was likely in use as well.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/us-1795.html (516 words)

	Black Americans in the US Military from the American Revolution to the Korean War
		In 1807, the USS Chesapeake refused to allow the crew from the British H.M.S. Leopard, resulting in provoking an attack that killed 3 Americans and wounded 18 others.
		The USS Constitution (“Old Ironsides”), the USS President, and the USS United States all had the heaviest broadsides and highest speeds of any ships of their class in the world.
		Most of the British cannon fire hit the Lawrence, killing eighty percent of the crew and forcing Perry to transfer onto the Niagra.
	www.dmna.state.ny.us /historic/articles/blacksMilitary/BlacksMilitary1812.htm (1059 words)

	Rising Nationalism: As Young US Matures, the Art of Coin Making Advances.
		After asking for a war declaration in 1812 reluctantly, Madison is credited with seeing the country through the test.
		Most historians concur the war was fought principally over freedom of the seas and retaliation for the impressment of American seamen, with the less mentioned, but very important, desire to expand the boundaries of the United States.
		As we look back at the War of 1812 from the perspective of the 21st century, we realize that even though the conflict essentially ended in a draw, it marked a turning point in American history.
	www.us-coin-values-advisor.com /a-rising-spirit-of-nationalism.html (4577 words)

	History Chapter 11 - A Time of Growth and War
		His wife was Dolly Madison and made history by herself during the War of 1812.
		The American Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry commanded the USS Lawrence.
		A banner waved on the mast that said "Don't Give Up the Ship!" Oliver Hazard Perry sent a message to William H. Harrison after his battle which said "I have met the enemy, and they are ours." This was good news.
	www.angelfire.com /ok5/bdkysar/chapter11.html (1874 words)

	USS GUNNEL SS-253 / Eighth War Patrol
		The EIGHTH war patrol of the USS GUNNEL was conducted close off the southern coast of JAPAN in the BUNGO SUIDO, the area in the North Pacific Ocean lying at the entrance between the islands of SHIKOKU and KYUSHU into the Inland Sea.
		The U.S.S. STEELHEAD was supposed to be about 250 miles in that direction so assume that is who it was as QUILLBACK was to the Southwest of us.
		This one blew up with a tremendous bang, scaring hell out of one curious bird apparently coming in to rest on it or attracted by the splashes in the water which he apparently thought was a school of fish.
	members.aol.com /jmlavelle2/patrol8.htm (10434 words)

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