Stephen Champlin, USN-- Part 3: Seriously Wounded and Captured

Champlin's ship USS Tigress, blockaded the British port at Mackinac for several months.

The British decided to break the blockade and attacked the Tigress by small boats manned with 400 British sailors and Indians.  Champlin was seriously wounded by a cannon shot that went through both thighs.  he and his ship were captured.

He suffered tremendously during his imprisonment by the British for 38 days before being paroled and exchanged.  He returned to Connecticut to recuperate.

--Brock-Perry