Jean Pierre Chazal was the captain of the Saucy Jack for most of its career and during its career, the privateer captured over forty British vessels. Lots of prize money for the captain, officers and crew. Thomas Hall Jervey (1778-1846) commanded the ship on its first cruise.
The Saucy Jack's signal book recently came up for auction and consists of ten pages. One page had nine hand-drawn and colored signals and 90 separate instructions for combinations of those flags. One is for "rendezvous in Savannah," another "rendezvous in Wilmington" and yet another for "engage the enemy on her weather bow."
--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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