Battle of Ice Mound-- Part 8

On February 27, 1815, the HMS Dauntless departed the Maryland waters of the Chesapeake Bay

There has always been the question as to why the tender's crew didn't use the carronade cannon as it was the most powerful piece of ordnance at the skirmish.  Some suspect that the ice had allowed the militia to approach so closely that their musket fire which would have been concentrated on any British trying to man it, kept them away.

Joseph Stewart, the American commander, died August 4, 1839 at Tobacco Stick (Madison), Dorchester County, Matyland.

The captured carronade was named by the Americans for Lt. Phibbs and the black woman cook and is called the "Becky Phibbs."  It can be seen on the western side of Taylors Island Bridge on Maryland Route 16.

--Brock-Perry