Part of a musket was found, a bayonet, an officer's walking stick, a wooden deadeye used in the ship's rigging and pieces of a shoe. Also 194 ceramic shards from plates, cups, saucers, soup bowls and a tankard.
They eventually determine the ship wreck to be that of the HMS General Hunter.
--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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