By Chris Dickon, Emmy-winning public radio and television producer from Virginia.
Mr. Dickon made a comment early on in my USS/HMS Chesapeake blog entries and is the author of a book on the subject, so has done a whole lot more research on it than I.
The USS Chesapeake was one of six frigates built in the 1790s and considered an "Unlucky Ship." There was a death in Gosport Shipyard in Portsmouth on the ship's launching in 1799. "In 1807 she was involved in a confrontation at sea that shocked the new American nation into a realization that it was now sovereign in the world and needed to be able to defend itself."
--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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