From Wikipedia.
On April 29, 1814, the USS Peacock captured the HMS Epervier off Cape Canaveral, Spanish Florida.
The HMS Epervier was an 18-gun Cruzer-class brig-sloop built by Ross at Rochester, England and launched 2 December 1812. It was commissioned in January 1813. On August 20, it captured the schooner Lively and later several other American ships and a privateer.
It was captured by the USS Peacock in 1814 and taken into U.S. service. The ship disappeared in 1815 while carrying dispatches announcing the signing of the treaty with the Dey of Algiers.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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