![]() ![]() Published in 1813, less than three months after Lawrence’s death, this compilation of articles and testimonies was no doubt rushed to press to both satisfy public hunger for information about this war hero and to take economic advantage of that interest. New-Brunswick, N.J.: Printed and published by L. ![]() Despite his loss in battle, Lawrence became idolized as a hero, forever associated with the apocryphal last words: “Don’t give up the ship.”īiography of James Lawrence, esq., late a captain in the navy of the United States: together with a collection of the most interesting papers, relative to the action between the Chesapeake and Shannon, and the death of Captain Lawrence, &c., &c. British marines and sailors boarded the Chesapeake and very bloody hand-to-hand combat left Captain Lawrence dying and his ship in British hands. Captain Broke was unusual in the British Navy for his diligent focus on gunnery and his crew’s training paid off in the fight with Lawrence’s less experienced officers who had served together on the Chesapeake only a few weeks. The two ships met on June 1 somewhere south of Cape Cod and exchanged several broadsides. Frigate Chesapeake, newly refitted and under the command of Captain James Lawrence. Ship Shannon sent away the rest of his squadron in hopes of luring out to sea the U.S. In the early summer of 1813, Captain Philip Broke of the H. And yet, navies exist to fight and the British gained their first major victory at sea in the war in a battle that by some measures never should have happened. Similarly, the British were meant to focus on the blockade, not battles. He did not forbid military engagement with the British navy, but the intention was clearly to avoid major sea battles that could devastate the smaller American navy. The Royal Navy never devoted enough ships to accomplish that end, and what ships did enforce the blockade endured hard use and had to return to England for any major repairs.Įarly in 1813, United States Secretary of the Navy William Jones ordered American ships to patrol the Atlantic individually in an effort to interfere with British commercial traffic. commercial and military traffic completely. The blockade interrupted but did not shut down U.S. ![]() ![]() Over the course of 1813, the British navy under the direction of Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren extended its blockade of American ports up the coast, stopping just short of New England. Boarding of the Chesapeake (1916) Shannon - Chesapeake ![]()
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