** The Shannon's bell is displayed at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax. It also has a surgeon's chest and mess kettle from the Chesapeake.
** A cannon, believed to have been from the Shannon, is on the north side of Province House., Nova Scotia's legislative building.
A lieutenant named Provo Wallis was acting captain of the Shannon for six days following the wounding of Captain Broke. because of this, he became senior to many other lieutenants during the Napoleonic-era Royal Navy.
This enabled him to eventually become Admiral of the Fleet.
--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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