200 Years Ago: The USS Constitution Captures Two British Ships

Even though the war by now was officially over with the U.S. ratification of the Treaty of Ghent three days earlier, there were still ships and places who didn't know about it.

FEBRUARY 20, 1815:  The USS Constitution captured the British sloops of war HMS Levant and HMS Cyane off the coast of North Africa.

Also, this date:  The Privateer schooner Dove out of Liverpool, England, captured the American brig Georges.  It is the last captured vessel to be brought into Halifax Harbor.

--  Brock-Perry