CHAPTER III 

 1815 



CONCLUDING OPERATIONS 



President captured by Captain Hayes' squadron Suc 

 cessful cutting-out expeditions of the Americans 

 Privateer brig Chasseur captures St. Lawrence 

 schooner Constitution captures Cyane and Levant 

 Escapes from a British squadron The Hornet cap 

 tures the Penguin, and escapes from a 74 The Pea 

 cock and the Nautilus Summary Remarks on the 

 war Tables of comparative loss, etc. Compared 

 with results of Anglo-French struggle 



THE treaty of peace between the United States 

 and Great Britain was signed at Ghent, Dec. 

 24, 1814, and ratified at Washington, Feb. 18, 1815. 

 But during these first two months of 1815, and un 

 til the news reached the cruisers on the ocean, the 

 warfare went on with much the same characteristics 

 as before. The blockading squadrons continued 

 standing on and off before the ports containing war 

 ships with the same unwearying vigilance; but the 

 ice and cold prevented any attempts at harrying the 

 coast except from the few frigates scattered along 

 the shores of the Carolinas and Georgia. There 

 was no longer any formidable British fleet in the 

 Chesapeake or Delaware, while at New Orleans the 



