The USS Merrimack, along with the USS Ganges and USS Pickering recaptured the American schooner John on the 15th of August after it had been captured the day before.
On June 6, 1800, it freed the American brig which had been captured a few days earlier.
In 22 September 1800, the ship arrived at Curacao, in the Netherlands Antilles and found sixteen French ships and 1400 men besieging it. The Merrimack and USS Patapsco forced them to leave.
20 October 1800, it captured the French privateer Phoenix.
The Merrimack was stripped of its naval equipment and sold in 1801, later in the merchant service as the Monticello and sank off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
--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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