NAVAL WAR OF 1812 



PART II 



CHAPTER I 

 1814 



ON THE OCEAN 



Strictness of the blockade Cruise of Rodgers Cruise of 

 the Constitution Her unsuccessful chase of La Pique 

 Attack on the Alligator The Essex captured The 

 Frolic captured The Peacock captures the Eper-vier 

 Commodore Barney's flotilla The British in the Chesa 

 peake The Wasp captures the Reindeer and sinks the 

 Avon Cruise and loss of the Adams The privateer 

 General Armstrong The privateer Prince de Neuf- 

 chatel Loss of the gunboats in Lake Borgne Fighting 

 near New Orleans Summary 



DURING this year the blockade of the American 

 coast was kept up with ever increasing rigor. 

 The British frigates hovered like hawks off every 

 seaport that was known to harbor any fighting craft ; 

 they almost invariably went in couples, to support 

 one another and to lighten, as far as was possible, 

 the severity of their work. On the northern coasts 

 in particular, the intense cold of the furious winter 

 gales rendered it no easy task to keep the assigned 

 stations ; the ropes were turned into stiff and brittle 



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