Two USS Vixens in the War of 1812-- Part 1

I'll be taking a break from privateers and writing about  this.

I have been writing about Edward Simpson, a U.S. Navy officer in the Mexican War and the Civil War in my Running the Blockade: Civil War Navy blog.  During the Mexican War, he served on the USS Vixen and his three commanders were also veterans of the War of 1812, plus, there were two USS Vixens in the War of 1812.

I will write about them in my next posts.

--Brock-Perry