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1. MAR812_120922_04.JPG: 1807: 12 June. The United Kingdom is locked in a decades-long war with France and the only thing keeping Britannia free from Napoleonic rule is the Royal Navy. Britain needs sailors to man her more than six hundred ships. So the Brits kidnap sailors from the largest merchant marine protected by the smallest army: that of the United States. Incident follows incident until HMS Leopard fires upon USS Chesapeake killing four men before seizing four so-called "deserters" for the crown. Cries for revenge echo through American ports. 1811: 16 May. USS President "accidentally" fires on the ridiculously-named HMS Little Belt during a night battle.
2. MAR812_120922_07.JPG: 1812: 17 June: US Declares War on UK 13 August: HMS Alert gives up after 8 minutes of fighting (wussies) and surrenders to USS Essex. 19 August: USS Constitution trounces HMS Guerriere (rhymes with derriere) Fun fact: The Guerriere used to be a ship as big as the Constitution. Some battle! 18 October: USS Wasp stings HMS Frolic, then unluckily is captured by HMS Poictiers. Yikes! 25 October: USS United States clobbers HMS Macedeonian. Fun fact: In a previous meeting, Captain John S. Garden of HMS Macedonian bet Captain Stephen Decatur of the USS United States a beaver hat that his ship would defeat United States should the two ever meet in battle. 22 November: HMS Southampton captures USS Vixen. 27 November: British fleet blockades Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River. 29 November: USS Constitution spills HMS Java off Brazil (also known as a "coffee break")
3. MAR812_120922_10.JPG: 1813: 24 February: USS Hornet thoroughly plucks HMS Peacock which sinks stylishly. February/March: David Porter and USS Essex sail into the Pacific to attack British whaling ships. 27 April: Americans capture and burn York, Canada. 1 June: HMS Shannon barely defeats USS Chesapeake. June/August: USS Argus captures 22 Brit merchant ships in the English channel. Insurance rates skyrocket (True!) 22 June: Battle of Craney Island. "Norfolk Saved!" The British hoped to burn the Gosport Navy Yard. American defenders respond with resounding "no!!" 26 June: Defeated in Norfolk, British burn Hampton out of spite. 5 August: Privateer Decatur captures HMS Dominica. 14 August: HMS Pelican captures USS Argus. Grateful nation awards Commander Maple of Pelican a bath. Sorry, the Order of Bath. Fun fact: Who was Argus? A 100-eyed giant in Greek mythology. 5 September: USS Enterprise KO's HMS Boxer on points. George III asserts fight fixed. Fun fact: The name Enterprise has graced two continental navy warships, six US Navy warships, a US Navy building, a US Army balloon, a space shuttle, and ten fictional spaceships. 10 September: Battle of Lake Erie. We have met the enemy and they are ours!
4. MAR812_120922_13.JPG: 1815: 29 April: USS Peacock outshines HMS Epervier. Demand for outrageous plumage skyrockets. 22 June: HMS Leander treads upon US Brig Rattlesnake. 28 June: USS Wasp ruins HMS Reindeer's "reindeer games". 24 August: British invade DC and burn the White House and Capitol. A young Rush Limbaugh quoted as saying "A good start." Fun fact: First lady Dolley Madison risks her personal safety to rescue many of her husband's papers and the official portrait of George Washington. 1 September: During a rare night time battle, USS Wasp captures HMS Avon! 11 September: Battle of Lake Champlain. 13-14 September: English bombard Fort McHenry (boo!) but fail to capture Baltimore (yay!) despite glare form numerous red rockets. 14 September: Francis Scott Key writes epic poem "The Defense of Fort McHenry". Set to music as "California Girls" and later "The Star Spangled Banner. Anthem frequently butchered at major sporting events. 7 November: Andrew Jackson seizes Pensacola, Florida. Guaranteeing spring break for the next 250 years. 24 December: Treat of Ghent signed in Belgium (not Norfolk, go figure!) officially ending the War of 1812. ... news travels slowly (no cell service -- you can't hear me now) so the war goes on....
5. MAR812_120922_17.JPG: 1815: 8 January: Battle of New Orleans. The Brits are crushed for good measure by Andrew Jackson, the "hillbilly from Tennessee, and his pirate friend, Jean Laffite". 15 January: Frigate President intercepted by a squadron of British frigates (what the frigate?) 17 February: Congress actually does something ... (no kidding) and ratifies the Treaty of Ghent. 20 February: USS Constitution captures HMS Cyane and HMS Levant off coast of Africa. 23 March: USS Hornet stings HMS Penguin (flightless bird unable to escape) 30 June: Finally... USS Peacock captures Nautilus, a British East India Company merchant ship, between Java and Sumatra ... news finally get around and the war fizzles out. The End!!!
6. MAR812_120922_20.JPG: "We have met the enemy and they are ours..." -- Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, USS Laurence A battle can be decided by the determination of a single individual. Oliver Hazard Perry lacked nothing in the confidence department. Prior to the war, Perry had developed a reputation for aggressive action. Granted command over Lake Erie, Perry oversaw construction of an improvised fleet and almost immediately led this force into close-quarter fighting with the British. With his flagship damaged, Perry transferred to another warship and continued to direct the battle until his opponent gave in. It was the first time in history an entire Royal Navy squadron surrendered. Fun fact: The Erie Brewing Company's Misery Bay IPA is a tribute to the sailors who lost their lives in the Battle of Lake Erie. The beer pairs with spicy entrees -- which excludes most British cuisine.
7. MAR812_120922_23.JPG: One on one (frigate-a-frigate): The United States declares war!!! But how to face the might of the British Navy? Faced with the reality that the United States Navy's twenty-two ships were significantly outnumbered by the eighty-five warships composing the Royal Navy North American Squadron, the Americans did the only sensible thing: they attacked one ship at a time. The US Navy wins another battle when USS Constitution routs HMS Guerriere in a [sic] hour-long slugfest that left the British ship dismasted and sinking. While the battle eliminated a scant .0016% of the Royal Navy's total strength, it proclaimed to the world that the scrappy Americans, ship for ship, could wipe the floor with the best the British had to offer. Fun fact: The live oak hull of Constitution was so stout that shot bounced off her sides during the battle resulting in her nickname, "Old Ironsides."
8. MAR812_120922_29.JPG: Don't Give up the Ship! The British ensign over the American flag indicates the USS Chesapeake has been captured. "Don't give up the ship. Fight her 'til she sinks." Captain James Lawrence's ironic last words were uttered just before the American ship Chesapeake was taken by HMS Shannon after a battle that lasted just fifteen minutes. The captured Chesapeake served in the Royal Navy for seven years. Fun fact: The US Navy has never named another combatant vessel USS Chesapeake.
9. MAR812_120922_32.JPG: Vengeance! On a dark night, USS President opens fire on a ship that refuses to identify itself. The American warship savages HMS Little Belt in an act of unofficial revenge for the attack on Chesapeake. Can war be far behind? Fun fact: "USS" stands for "United States Ship" while "HMS" is an abbreviation for "His/Her Majesty's Ship".
10. MAR812_120922_37.JPG: The Enemy's In Sight! Clash of Navies in the War of 1812 The United Kingdom's interference with United States' commerce and the right to freely sail the seas, coupled with other major disagreements between the countries, led to the War of 1812. Although the war was waged on land, it was the victories at sea that proved the U.S. Navy could beat the best.
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Wikipedia Description: Mariners' Museum
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The Mariners' Museum is located in Newport News, Virginia. It is one of the largest maritime museums in the world as well as being the largest in North America.

History

The museum was founded in 1932 by Archer Milton Huntington, son of Collis P. Huntington, a railroad builder who brought the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to Warwick County, Virginia, and who founded the City of Newport News, its coal export facilities, and Newport News Shipbuilding in the late 19th century.

Archer and his wife, the sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, acquired 800 acres (3.2 km�) of land that would come to hold 61,000 square feet (5,700 m�) of exhibition galleries, a research library, a 167 acre (676,000 m�) lake, a five mile (8 km) shoreline trail with fourteen bridges, and over 35,000 maritime artifacts from around the globe. After acquisition took place, the first two years were devoted to creating and improving a natural park and constructing a dam to create Lake Maury, named after the nineteenth-century Virginia oceanographer Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury.

Artifacts, paintings, models

The museum’s collection totals approximately 32,000 artifacts equally divided between works of art and three-dimensional objects. The scope of the collection is international and includes miniature ship models, scrimshaw, maritime paintings, decorative arts, carved figureheads, working steam engines, and the world's only known existing Kratz-built steam calliope. The museum holds important collections of paintings and drawings by marine artists James Bard and Antonio Jacobsen. The museum offers educational programs for all ages, a large research library and archives, as well as publications and Internet resources for teachers.

USS Monitor Center

The Mariners' Museum is home to the USS Monitor Center. In 1973, the wreck of the ironclad USS Monitor, made famous in the Battle of Hampton Roads in 1862 during the American Civil War was located on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean about 16 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The wreck site was designated as the United States' first national marine sanctuary. Monitor Sanctuary is the only one of the thirteen national marine sanctuaries created to protect a cultural resource, rather than a natural resource.

The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is now under the supervision of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Many artifacts from Monitor, including her innovative turret, propeller, anchor, engine and some personal effects of the crew, have been brought to the museum. For several years, they were conserved in special tanks to stabilize the metal. The new USS Monitor Center officially opened on March 9, 2007, and a full-scale replica of the Monitor, the original recovered turret, and many artifacts and related items are now on display. Current efforts are focused on restoring the engine.
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