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Privateers from the Chesapeake; The Story of Chasseur, the "Pride of Baltimore" and the War of 1812
Publicado por The Pride of Baltimore, Inc, Baltimore, MD, 2001
Librería: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Estados Unidos de America
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Wraps. Condición: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 27, [1] pages, including covers. Format is 8.75 inches by 6 inches. Illustrations and typography have some color. Chasseur was a Baltimore Clipper commanded by Captain Thomas Boyle, an American privateer during the War of 1812. She sailed from Fells Point in Baltimore. On his first voyage as master of Chasseur in 1814, Boyle sailed directly to the British Isles, where he harassed the British merchant fleet. Boyle sent a notice to King George III by way of a captured merchant vessel that he had released for the purpose. The notice, he commanded, was to be posted on the door of Lloyd's of London. In it he declared that the entire British Isles were under naval blockade by Chasseur alone. This affront sent the shipping community into panic and caused the Admiralty to call vessels home from the American war to guard merchant ships which had to sail in convoys. Chasseur captured or sank 17 vessels before returning home. On February 26, 1815, just off Havana, Chasseur took HMS St Lawrence. Chasseur carried 14 guns and 102 men, while St Lawrence carried 13 guns and 76 men. The intense action lasted only about 15 minutes, during which St Lawrence suffered six men killed and 17 wounded, several of them mortally. (According to American accounts, the English had 15 killed and 25 wounded.) Chasseur had five killed and eight wounded, including her captain. Captain Boyle, of Chasseur, made a cartel of St Lawrence and sent her and her crew into Havana as his prize. On Chasseur's return to Baltimore the Niles' Register called the ship the "Pride of Baltimore". Scott Sheads was a Ranger-Historian at the Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine and Jerome Bird was the Director of Education and Public Relations for the Pride of Baltimore, Inc.
