德拉克講美英1812年戰爭 護衛艦決鬥 美英1812年戰爭 護衛艦決鬥 - 英國香濃號VS美國切薩皮克號

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介紹一下背景 HMS Peacock 是原來的六艘Frigate 但只是一個小例子 美國總統 和當然是共和黨 是大型的 大約44艘船 而共和黨 Constellation和HMS Peacock 是較小的規格 HMS Peacock是最小的 只有153公尺 最初被評為 36艘船 此前曾經增加到38艘 與共和黨和Constellation的 武器在一致 如同Frigate一般 她當然擁有 更多的武器 在這場戰爭的階段 她擁有 根據大多數報告 50艘 共有28個18公斤的長槍 在主要的槍架 24公斤的輕型武器 在三艘大Frigate 和18個32公斤的長槍 在Spa Deck 而追擊槍 共有18公斤 12公斤的長槍 和12公斤的長槍 在海上 航行的是38枚 HMS Shannon 由Captain Broke指導 我們最後看到 這艘船 是一隊不成功 想要追擊共和黨 在戰爭的最初階段 Broke曾經擔任Shannon的船長 自1806年她入伍 而船長和船長 都曾經對法國進行廣泛的行動 獲得至少三個獎項 而在這場戰爭的最初階段 她取得了航母 USS Nautilus 再獲得另一艘航母 是由一名美國公民 然後再獲得另一名美國公民 在恢復貨幣運輸 從一艘航空母艦中 Broke再獲得 另一艘美國公民 然後再獲得另一艘貨幣運輸 直到他發現 這艘船的國會 總統和憲法 都在波士頓港 Shannon和陪伴這艘船的Tenedos 已經出發 通知剩下的隊伍 他們屬於 而是在這段時間 Chesapeake已經到達 Shannon和Tenedos 在剩下的隊伍中 同時進行了近攻 包括至少一艘船 和一艘航空母艦 在1813年4月 Broke發了一項英文挑戰 給總統的John Rogers 挑戰他進行一場2對2的戰鬥 總統和國會 對抗Shannon和Tenedos 但在早期的5月 Rogers選擇逃離港口 隱藏著重型蜘蛛 後來的一夜 另一艘航空母艦 被美國國旗發現 被追擊 被迫逃走 在避免附近的軍隊 發射炮彈 Shannon派了船進去 修復了航空母艦 變成了CORVETTE INVINCIBLE 另一艘美國私人航空母艦 由於總統 還在修復航空母艦 在與Java的戰鬥後 Chesapeake成為了 波士頓港的唯一航空母艦 在這個階段 Evans仍然在任務 雖然他也感染了 羅倫茲在修復航空母艦時 被派到波士頓港 首先指揮紐約航空母艦 然後很簡短的 指揮了總統 Chesapeake在4月底 被命令到波士頓港 而Evans則在 轉航到布魯克林航空母艦 這就是導致羅倫茲的死亡 他的任務不僅是 在波士頓港準備航空母艦 還要確保他有足夠的船員 波士頓港航空母艦 的船員有許多 試圖表現 波士頓港航空母艦 在Chesapeake上的 綠色船員的不公平 但這其實只是一個謬論 當她來到波士頓港時 波士頓港的航空母艦 有387人 根據波士頓港航空母艦 在她抵達的日子 與她抵達的日子相比 我們可以看到 波士頓港航空母艦 295人 有97個新改動 老實說 許多的Chesapeake航空母艦 對於付出不足的獎金 但羅倫茲 其實直接在 她自己的資金上提出了稅 以藉此解決問題 當然她的目的 是要補償美國的股票 從97個新改動 其中包括羅倫斯 一群士兵從法律上轉移 更期待遲一點的行動 另一群19人的替代人是海軍 因此不會影響船上的戰鬥和航行能力 或任何其他航行行動 剩下的大約50人 也並非沒有經驗 船員清單顯示 船上沒有任何有經驗的海軍 雖然船上的船員都是新人 但有些船員其實在之前的航行 但不在最近的航行 羅倫斯接著 將新來的船員 融合在同一組 進行多次測試 例如測試離岸 測試武器 甚至測試航行 兩週的激烈測試 已經有經驗的船員 幾乎已經準備好 當然 大多數船員 只會在船上測試一次 所以 除了不確定的綠色船員 赤壁的船員 其實是東海岸 最有可能找到的 在1813年5月和6月 在海岸上 只剩下Shannon Tenedos已經被解僱 來儲存她的水和食物 和其他東西 Shannon只有三公尺矮 比赤壁還要矮 如果你想知道 後代船員的樣子 仍然有兩艘 在英國的博物館 HMS Unicorn在丹甸 和HMS Trincomalee在哈爾特 雖然他們已經 稍微改造了 因為他們 仍然在儲存 或者在新船上 儲存了幾十年 Shannon擁有52枚武器 像赤壁 其中有28枚18公尺 在主艦艇上 而在上艦艇上 她擁有16枚32公尺的轟彈 兩枚比她的美國對手少 還有3枚12公尺的轟彈 4枚9公尺的導彈 和一個6公尺的轟彈 全部都由330名人員負責 然而 兩艘船和裝備 都被美國海岸 經歷了幾乎不斷的運作 自從戰爭爆發 布魯克很想進行好戰鬥 才被迫離開 於是 1月1日 他召喚了一名美國船員 被囚禁在船上 並允許他在海岸上運載 一封挑戰信 送給羅倫斯在赤壁上 信中說 赤壁現在出現了 準備出海 請你幫我 和她一起 從艦艇到艦艇 嘗試我們的相同的旗幟 您的角色的船員 需要一些道歉 來進行更多的分析 請確保 這不是因為任何疑問 我可以威脅您 想要結束我的提議 只是為了提供答案 對任何有疑問的問題 以及非常合理的 對於我們得到的不公平支援的機會 經過我們付出了 慷慨的關注 給羅倫斯的船員 我付出的苦勞 是把所有力量 除了珊妮和蒂妮多 離得太遠 導致他們無法參與 任何行動 在艦艇的監視下 以及各種語音信息 被發送到波士頓 對此有影響 我們非常失望 得知科摩多 誤導了我們 航行第一次機會 在東方風暴 迫使我們 保持離岸服務 他或許 希望有更強烈的 確認和公平的會議 我因此 強烈鼓勵您 更特別地 確定 我所寫的 我宣誓 以最大力量 珊妮 搭載了24枚槍 在她的大船 和一枚輕型船槍 18公斤的 在她的主船 32公斤的 鋼彈 在她的四方船 和輻射 並與 300名男性和男性 其中 大部分 除了30名 船員 男性和乘客 他們最近 被取出 重新捕獲的船 我此時此刻 因為 一份報告 在某些 波士頓報紙中 我們從 150名 更多的船員 這真的 從來沒有發生過 Lahogue 現在已經 離開了 Halifax 為了提供服務 我會派遣 所有其他船員 遠離 和我們 互相干擾的權力 並與你們見面 無論你們同意 在 提到的 約會的 從 Cape Cod燈塔 3-10離岸 在 Cash's Ledge 在 Latitude 43 North 在任何 你願意 離岸和遠離的地方 修復 南吐克的南端 聖喬治銀行的 如果 你願意 向我提供 任何訊號 或電話 我會警告你 如果 遵守這個承諾 任何 我的朋友 太近 或 任何 在目的地 直到 我可以 把他們 你認為 最安全的 從 我們 航班 下降 當 開始 仇恨 你必須 知道 我的提議 對你非常有益 因為 你無法 單獨 在 Chesapeake 不允許 被 英國 軍隊 的 在 國外 在 你所有的努力 在 紅色的 雙方 雖然 堅強 但也 完全 沒有 希望 我 請你 不要 想像 我對 遇見 Chesapeake 的 或 我只 依賴 你的 個人 意圖 為 你的 邀請 雙方 有 榮耀 如果 我 說 我們的 會議 是 我 感謝 我的 國家 我 不 懷疑 你 同樣 有 成功 只 在 你 所有的 只 依賴 個人 意圖 為 你的 邀請 雙方 有 說 我們的 會議 同樣 有 在 你 所有的 你 不 懷疑 我 和 你 同樣 有 如果 我 說 我們的 會議 是 不 懷疑 我 和 你 同樣 You may yet oblige me by keeping my proposal a secret And appointing any place you'd like to meet us within 300 miles of Boston In a given number of days after you sail As, unless you agree to such an interview I may be busied on other service And perhaps be at great distance from Boston when you go to sea Choose your terms, but let us meet After having sealed this letter Broke remembered something else and wrote on the outside of the envelope With an offer to exchange 13 captured American privateers For an equal number of British prisoners Before battle was commenced Unfortunately, the letter never reached Lawrence For he had independently decided to sail the same morning And so Chesapeake was actually already at sea When Broke's letter reached Boston In the end though, the outcome was to be pretty much the same Chesapeake and Shannon were about to meet in single combat Thus, both sides had reason to be confident Although roughly matched in size and firepower Chesapeake's crew was good, as was Shannon's As one source would write some decades later That the Shannon's guns were all carefully sighted And moreover, every day for about an hour and a half in the forenoon When not prevented by chase or the state of the weather The men were exercised at training the guns And for the same time in the afternoon In the use of the broadsword, pike, musket, etc. Twice a week the crew fired at targets Both with great guns and musketry And Captain Broke, as an additional stimulus Beyond the emulation excited Gave a pound of tobacco to every man Who put a shot through the bullseye He would frequently have a cask thrown overboard And suddenly order some gun to be manned In order to sink the cask Just before Chesapeake left dock Lawrence sent out a final pair of letters One was a quick last will and testament, just in case Leaving his family to the care of his brother-in-law The other, to the Secretary of the Navy, read I am now getting underway to carry into execution The instruction you have honored me with An English frigate is now in sight from my deck I have sent a pilot boat out to reconnoiter And, should she be alone I am in hopes to give a good account of her before night My crew appear to be in fine spirits And I trust they will do their duty Aware that his American counterpart Could not possibly have received his letter yet When he spotted Chesapeake making ready for sea Broke took Shannon in close And fired a single gun in challenge He then ran his men through one last exercise At action stations before standing them down for lunch Just after 12 noon Chesapeake fired an answering gun In response to Shannon's challenge And then hoisted a large flag Upon which was written Free trade and sailors' rights Broke quickly dashed off another challenge And sent it ashore with a fishing boat This copy would also not reach its recipient As the fishing boat captain Instead of heading straight into the harbour Landed at Marblehead And just posted it Coming off of the victories Against Gurrier, Macedonian and Java The inhabitants of Boston Seem to have decided that the battle Was as good as won in their favour already As the wind filled Chesapeake's sails And she trailed a comet's tail Of smaller craft on her way out With a celebratory dinner Being arranged for the evening Complete with a place setting For the presumed prisoner and guest of honour Captain Broke Shannon made sail And steered to pace Chesapeake Eving too Would hand the American ship the advantage And give the chance for various gunboats To come out of Boston in support Short sail was deliberately set To allow Chesapeake to overtake them And the guns were loaded Broke was very particular About his opening salvo Whilst Lawrence had taken aboard A good number of chain, bar and other shot That were designed to take out An enemy's rigging at close range Broke ordered his 18-pounders To be loaded with two solid shot in one gun And a single ball And then a canister of grape shot in the next Alternating in this way As you went along the gun deck Three buckets were set out next to each gun One was dry and held a matchlock Just in case the flintlock on the gun failed The other two were full of water One was for putting out fires And cooling down the guns with sponges The other was for refreshing the crew in battle The 32-pounder carronades above Were loaded similarly And all sorts of small arms Were laid out for easy access If it came down to boarding or counterboarding The yards were secured with chains To prevent them from falling to the deck If they were broken Unless of course the masts themselves Happened to fall And an anti-boarding net Was rigged well above head height At this height it wouldn't prevent boarders From coming over the side Assuming the two ships were roughly equal Free board But it would catch Larger bits of falling debris That might otherwise injure the crew At around 1600 Both ships were about 15 miles out of Boston And well into open sea On a converging course Less than four miles apart The American ship Was flying three ensigns Plus of course its banner And at 1710 Action seemed imminent So Broke summoned the crew Reminding them that it was on them To reverse the tide of American victories In various frigate actions Before giving his final orders Don't try to dismast her Fire into her quarters Main deck to main deck Quarter deck into quarter deck Kill the men and the ship is yours Don't hit them about the head For they have steel caps on But give it them through the body Don't cheer Go quietly to your quarters I feel sure you will all do your duty And remember You have the blood of hundreds of your countrymen To avenge Broke for his part Insisted he only needed to fly one ensign Which hung at the mizzen peak Although he had three spares on hand Just in case it got shot away One of the last sets of men To be sent to their stations Were those crewing the nine pounder Bow chase guns These were some of the best gunners on the ship And Broke had not only trained them hard But given them a special assignment Which would require them to use The medium artillery pieces Like sniper rifles At 1725 Chesapeake set battle sail And steered straight at Shannon's Starboard aft quarter The British crew admired The American ship handling It was coming in just aft enough That had Shannon's starboard guns Wanted to engage it in a long range bombardment It was just out of the firing arc Double loaded as they were They didn't actually have any intention to do so But there was no way for Lawrence to know that As it was Not only was Chesapeake out of the line of fire But the course meant that Whilst there was a possibility That Chesapeake would pass astern and rake Shannon She could equally pull up at the last minute For a broadside exchange of fire Lawrence however Had ordered his own guns to be double shotted But with bar and canister shot Atop the round shot He intended to repeat his victory over the Peacock Firing a shattering broadside To cripple the enemy's rigging Before then circling and raking at will Once he had the freedom to maneuver For that He needed to retain the weather gauge And fight broadside on Dismantling shot As it was known at the time Would not pass through Three sets of masts and rigging One after the other Which a raking salvo would force it to do Just in case Chesapeake decided to go for the aft rake though Broke split his gun crews Ready to fight on either side And bore slightly to starboard Which threatened to turn across Chesapeake's bow and rake her first If Lawrence made to pass astern Because of course Much as Lawrence didn't know what Shannon was carrying Neither did Broke know what Chesapeake was carrying At 1740 With both ships still eerily silent Chesapeake hauled over to starboard Only 50 yards from Shannon And pulled in parallel Her crew gave three cheers As they waited for the British ship's rigging To come fully into their arc of fire As the American ship Slowly overhauled her target Shannon's crew for their part Remained dead quiet Their own orders were to let The Chesapeake's first manned gunport Come directly into view Of Shannon's aft post main gun Before they opened fire At 1750 As Chesapeake's bow edged up Shannon's side The mark was reached For Shannon's gun crews And the aft most 18 pounder Fired at scarcely 40 yards range Its two round shots Smashed through Chesapeake's hull In the vicinity of the first manned gunport The Chesapeake carried forward And the next British gun Sent its grape shot Straight into the same gunport Wiping out most of the gun crew As Chesapeake progressed Up the Shannon's starboard side A rolling broadside of cannon and carronade fire Shattered the forward part Of Chesapeake's battery In the fighting tops The Royal Marines poured fire Onto Chesapeake's decks They had been ordered To pick off the officers But they could barely see anything Forward of the main mast In the haze of shattered wood dust Canvas and other debris That was flying up from their target Broke was standing close to the ship's wheel And he had procured A bucket of hand grenades And was busily trimming the fuses With a pocket knife Before igniting and hurling them In between issuing occasional orders Now however Broke's secret weapon came into play The nine-pounders up in the bow In this case particularly The one on the starboard bow Was a relatively small gun But it could be loaded And fired quite swiftly And with a good crew Very accurately They now commenced their task And calmly blew away The man who was standing At Chesapeake's wheel The wheel itself remained If it was destroyed Several dozen men would have been Sent down to the tiller To steer the ship But that was out of sight And honestly out of reach Of a nine-pounder Instead seeing the wheel unattended The American crew did their duty And another man stepped up Within a minute He too had been taken out By the nine-pounder The ship's fourth lieutenant The ship's master And the bosun amongst others Would all go the same way In the next few minutes The Chesapeake was not slow in replying With her own broadside But with the wind coming from starboard As the two ships drew level Chesapeake created a wind shadow This stole the air From Shannon's sails And thus increased The speed differential As the American vessel Suddenly seemed to race ahead Even though it was actually Shannon falling back The guns had to be ordered To let fly sooner Rather than later With the weather gauge Chesapeake's port side Was most often rolled Somewhat downwards And the ship's full broadside Was forced to be let go On a down roll Lest it not be discharged at all Most of the 18-pounders And their carefully prepared Dismantling shot Thus hit just above Shannon's waterline Causing a few holes Which the ship's carpenter Had to get to immediately From the round shot But missing the bulk Of Shannon's gun crews Whilst the lighter Dismantling shot Either just bounced off Or embedded itself in the hull To no real effect The carronades did slightly better They'd been aimed For the mid to upper rigging And instead hit the lower rigging Which was still roughly In keeping with Lawrence's objectives Further aft Where the haze of splinters and dust Was less choking The American senior officers Had almost been wiped out Killed or wounded to a man Only Lawrence remained on deck And he was leaning heavily On the compass pinnacle With a musket ball Having shattered one of his legs Just below the knee Some of the upper gun deck fire From Shannon Had cut some of the lower rigging On Chesapeake And as she surged ahead of Shannon The loose spanker sail And the slight delay in orders That was caused by the elimination Of most of the command crew Saw the wind start to bring Chesapeake slightly around to starboard Which exposed her stern to Shannon Who in turn bore to port Very slightly In order to take advantage Of the situation And let fly with another broadside With the ships drawing further apart The nine pounder crews Chose this moment To finally destroy Chesapeake's wheel Then either they Or the general fire Severed the tiller ropes And cut down the last Of the ship's quartermasters It wasn't all one-sided The amidships and aft guns of Chesapeake Had been returning fire And would continue to do so As Shannon bore up again Now firing more on the level Men began to drop All across Shannon's bow A thirty-two pounder carronade ball Scored a direct hit On one of the troublesome nine pounders Badly injuring the gun captain And mortally wounding Another one of the gun crew Broke had just arrived From further off To order those two small guns To switch targets To Chesapeake's yards In order to stop it escaping Now out of control Chesapeake continued To swing gently into the wind Losing way And then beginning to drift back Stern first towards Shannon The British ship obliged By systematically destroying The aft section Of the American gun batteries And a box of cartridges On Chesapeake's quarter deck Exploded Most survivors attested That they were set off By a hand grenade And the only one Throwing hand grenades At the time on Shannon Was broke Who was hauling His diminishing bucket Of explosives around with him As he continued To give fine orders He now meant To stay close And finish the fight With close range gunnery From a position of advantage But as the ship made to do so American fire Shot away the lines To the jib stay and fore sails And the Shannon Answered the helm sluggishly The ships were now On a collision course And then suddenly came To a relative halt About halfway overlapped With Shannon's fore quarter And Chesapeake's aft quarter Overlapping As Shannon's starboard anchor Had hooked into one of the American ship's gun ports Neither side was particularly keen On the idea of boarding in general Compared to gunnery and maneuver With such elite crews Boarding was much less predictable In outcome But both captains As the ships bore onto it Could see what was about to happen And so they both called For boarding parties to assemble Demoralized by the hail of shot And musketry That was sweeping their decks A good chunk of the crew Who were left on Chesapeake's Exposed upper decks Fled below Which caused a bit of a traffic jam With the amid ship gunnery crews The only body of men Left on the ship With any real numbers Of unwounded men fit for action Acting lieutenant William Cox Led those answering the captain's call Managing to reach Lawrence Just in time for a Royal Marine On Shannon's quarter deck To spot Lawrence And shoot the American captain At close range Hit a second time This time in the abdomen Lawrence must have realized He was mortally wounded Cox sent his men aft For the British led by Broke Had attained Chesapeake's quarter deck And Cox took Lawrence below deck As he left Lawrence called out the now famous phrase Don't give up the ship Shannon's bosun Went to tie the ships together Only to lose his right arm To either an American cutlass Or gunfire Accounts vary But he apparently then Killed his attacker And completed the job one-handed Before heading below for treatment Up on the quarter deck Only the ship's chaplain Offered any resistance to the British The men from the gun deck Tried to make a final stand Along with the remaining Chesapeake Marines on the spar deck But of the 44 Marines Who started the battle British gunnery had killed Or wounded every single officer Bar one corporal And every other marine Bar nine slightly dazed survivors The US sailors in the fighting tops Fired down into the British boarding party Managing to kill and wound some of them But were themselves Soon cut down by their opposite numbers Aboard the Shannon Joined in by one of the nine-pounders Which had swivelled around Loaded with grape or canister shot And elevated itself high enough To clear out at least one of these positions Chesapeake was swinging away From the collision And there was a brief hope That the isolated British Could be overwhelmed But before the twisting of the ships Could snap the lines Holding them together About 70 of Shannon's crew Had made it over An American counterattack Was rapidly beaten back With the British taking control Of the spar deck And the remaining resistance Falling back to the foc'sle With the boarders Rapidly securing the hatches And dispatching a few men Who tried to climb up and out of them To join the fight It was less than two minutes Since the boarding had begun And about 12 minutes Since the first shots were fired It seemed that it was all over There now comes a serious And somewhat irreconcilable difference Between British and American accounts Of the action According to the American version Broke was leading the final attack On the foc'sle When he was wounded in the chest By a cutlass Having just parried a thrust from a pike And killed its wielder A gunner saw this Killed the cutlass wielder in turn Before the British pulled back And then with a volley of gunfire And a final coordinated charge Wiped out the last resistance on the foc'sle But according to the British version The Americans in the foc'sle stood down Seeing the odds stacked against them And Broke interposed himself Between the boarders and the boarded To ensure that their surrender was honored As everyone's blood was up at this point At this stage Three of the men who had surrendered Snatched up their weapons again And attacked Broke Who in a similarity with the American account Parried a pike thrust and killed its wielder But then had his heavy leather top hat Worn as a protection against debris Knocked off by a musket That was being wielded as a club Before he was struck again in the head By a man wielding a cutlass The accounts come together again To agree that a gunner then saved Broke By cutting down the cutlass wielder Seeing the surrender dishonored The boarding party then finished off The three in question Who were later identified as men Who deserted from the Royal Navy And thus would likely have been executed For desertion in the aftermath of the battle In any case Either way Despite his ill fortune Broke's luck almost immediately turned As he collapsed into a heap of quicklime Which was used as a disinfectant On American ships And had probably had its barrel smashed earlier By a cannonball A fine coating of the caustic substance Probably saved Broke's life As the head wound Had gotten down to the brain cavity But the quicklime Would have wiped out any and all bacteria Which sought to capitalize on the wound Broke was helped understandably To unsteady feet And Chesapeake's colors were struck A small blue ensign For such was Shannon's affiliation Within the Royal Navy squadrons Was hoisted But a final tragedy occurred As one Lieutenant Watt Who had brought a large white ensign with him Made to hoist this instead As he saw it as a far more fitting flag Unfortunately The two ships had at this stage drifted apart And upon sight of someone Hauling down the blue ensign One of Shannon's gun crews Thought that the Americans Were retaking their ship And opened fire The deadly precision of the Shannon's crew Working against them As a hail of grapeshot Immediately killed Watt And either killed or wounded Five other men in the boarding party The blue ensign Was rather quickly re-hoisted To prevent further confusion It was now five minutes Since the boarding action had started And only fifteen Since the battle had begun Broke, his work done Allowed himself the luxury Of passing out from blood loss With every American officer Dead or wounded below The Chesapeake had been taken But not formally surrendered And there was discontent From below the decks The British solved that issue By taking the ship's Eighteen pounder bow gun Double loading it with grapeshot And then aiming it Down the main hatchway With a threat to discharge it If there was any further Attempt at resistance made A boat from Shannon then arrived With further Royal Marines To help keep order And the boat returned Bearing Broke Who was taken below To have his wound dressed and cleaned Which was about all the surgeons could do Along with some of the Identified ringleaders Amongst the American crew Who were also put below Except as prisoners Worried that so close to the U.S. coast Other U.S. ships might come out To try and recover the situation Shannon's crew scrambled To make good the damaged rigging On both ships as fast as possible With a mast secured The two ships were slowly sailed Towards Halifax As further repairs were conducted The bilges were pumped And the dead were committed to the deep Examination of the ships Showed that Shannon had landed About 130% more hits on Chesapeake Than she had received in return 362 hits on the American ship Compared to 158 on the British hull Albeit a large number of these On both sides were grapeshot And of course hits that Severed rigging, killed men, struck guns Or entered gun ports Or in some other way Passed through the ship With little remaining evidence Of their passage Could not be counted Casualties amounted to around 147 or 148 for the Americans And 83 or 84 for the British Sources vary on the total And also the nature of the casualties With the two best sources I could find Stating that either 61 or 48 dead or mortally wounded Were on Chesapeake With another 85 or 99 Wounded but would live Whilst crediting Shannon As having suffered 33 or 26 dead or mortally wounded With 50 or 58 others Wounded but surviving As Theodore Roosevelt Would write Almost a century later It is thus seen That the Shannon received From shot alone Only about half the damage The Chesapeake did The latter was thoroughly beaten At the guns In spite of what some American authors say To the contrary And her victory Was not in the slightest degree To be attributed to Though it may have been Slightly hastened by Accident Training and discipline Won the victory As often before Only in this instant The training and discipline Were against us At daylight On the 2nd The two ships encountered Two large warships And Shannon's crew worried That these might be The USS President and Congress But it turned out They were actually The 74-gun HMS Scepter And the frigate HMS Loire Fog then delayed entry Into Halifax And so Coasting off the Canadian coast On the 4th of June Captain James Lawrence Succumbed to his wounds Chesapeake and Shannon Finally entered the harbor On the 6th Broke's health Was incredibly fragile So much that When the two ships arrived Visitors were instructed To tour Chesapeake Lest the noise of their passage Affect Broke He seemed to live on Through sheer force of will The surgeons could do little But redress the wound periodically Through which they could see Gently pulsing brain matter He was soon moved ashore To the Commissioner's house On the 8th Lawrence was laid to rest With full military honors In Halifax A service attended by Shannon's surviving officers Minus Broke, of course The local army garrison And any American officers From Chesapeake Who were able to make it Under their own power However, Lawrence Would not rest easy Buried alongside His executive officer Who had been recovering From wounds before Suddenly dropping dead On the 13th Both men would be exhumed A couple of months later And reburied in Salem, Massachusetts Then exhumed again Shortly thereafter And moved one final time To New York Where, thankfully They had been allowed to rest since Broke gradually fought his way back To some semblance of health He and his senior Most surviving officers Would be granted A naval gold medal The lieutenants would be Promoted to commanders And Broke was also made a Baron And Knight Commander Of the Order of the Bath Alongside various other awards Whilst he would manage to recover To a fair degree It was judged His wounds ruled him out Of further active duty Although he barely resisted The prospect in early 1814 Of taking command of a new 50-gun frigate That had been built Specifically to hunt down The big American frigates themselves Instead He remained ashore As a gunnery specialist And would eventually reach The rank of Rear Admiral of the Red The senior most Of the Rear Admiral positions Prior to the abolition Of the Royal Navy's Colour squadrons And would live To the age of 64 Passing away At the start of 1841 Of course With this battle reversing The previous trend Of American victories In frigate duels Both sides Sought to use propaganda To either enhance Or diminish the battle According to Who was on the winning or losing side On the British side That led to some Painfully jingoistic speeches And a bunch of overweening pride Mostly from men Who were almost certainly Nowhere near the caliber Of broke Who'd actually won it On the American side A truly bizarre court martial Took what was in fact A noble defeat That was nothing to be ashamed of And promptly tried to trash Anyone and anything Associated with it It was here That various myths Such as Chesapeake Being unlucky or cursed That Chesapeake Had actually won the gunfight Only to be disabled by accident That Shannon was somehow larger More heavily armed Or more heavily manned Or that the foreign and black Crewmen were to blame Or that poor Lieutenant Cox Was at fault for taking Lawrence below Somehow expecting him to realize In the smoke and confusion That every single officer above him In rank had been killed or wounded And various others like these All ultimately began With this inquiry Fortunately for both sides though Enough first-hand accounts And records survived To put together what Actually happened that day For the most part Which is the account That you've just heard Both sides had gone in With experienced captains Well-trained crews And good ships Of about equal fighting power What decided victory that day Simply came down to choice of tactics And as it so happened Broke's tactics turned out to be The almost perfect counter to Lawrence's Such are the vagaries of war But the men of both sides Certainly earned the honor Of doing their utmost In a very well-fought battle