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Action off Charles Island
The Action off Charles Island was a naval battle fought during the War of 1812 in the summer of 1813 off Charles Island in the Galapagos. An American squadron of three vessels attacked three British armed whalers, and captured them. The engagement was notable for being one of the few to occur in the Pacific Ocean during the war and involved United States Marine Lieutenant John M. Gamble, the first marine to command an American warship.
==Background==
In the war between the United Kingdom and the United States, American Captain David Porter, in the thirty-six gun frigate , led a fleet of armed vessels in the South Pacific in one of the first commerce raiding operations in history. At the time of the action, ''Essex'' was accompanied by two smaller vessels, recently captured from the British and classified as sloops-of-war by Captain Porter. They were the 10-gun ''Greenwich'' of 338 tons burthen and the 10-gun ''Georgiana'' of 280 tons burthen. Porter had sent the rest of his fleet to Valparaiso to be sold while he and the remaining vessels patrolled for British whalers between Tumbes, Peru and the Galapagos.
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Because Porter had entered the Pacific with no more than 350 American servicemen under his command, when he took prizes he could only place small skeleton crews in most of his ships. The ''Georgiana'' had a complement of forty-two men under Mr. Adams, the ''Essex''s chaplain, and the ''Greenwich'' held only fourteen men under the command of Lieutenant Gamble.
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