The newly commissioned USS Merrimack left Boston on 3 January 1799 for the Windward islands in the Caribbean to protect American merchant ships during the Quasi War with France.
On June 28, 1799, it took a prize, the L'Magicienne, the former U.S. Navy schooner Retaliation which had been captured by the French in 1798. The Merrimack then captured the French privateer Bonaparte 7 August.
With the USS Ganges and USS Pickering, she recaptured the American schooner John on the 15th after that ship had been captured the day before.
This Is Called Close Action With the Enemy. --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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