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Chesapeake Bay Flotilla : ウィキペディア英語版 | Chesapeake Bay Flotilla
The Chesapeake Bay Flotilla was a collection of barges and gunboats that the United States assembled under the command of Joshua Barney, an 1812 privateer captain, to stall British attacks in the Chesapeake Bay, during the War of 1812. The Flotilla engaged the Royal Navy in several inconclusive battles before Barney was forced to scuttle the vessels themselves on August 22, 1814. The men of the Flotilla then served onshore in the defense of Washington, DC and Baltimore. It was disbanded on February 15, 1815, after the end of the war. ==Formation== Joshua Barney submitted a plan for the defense of the Chesapeake Bay to Secretary of the Navy William Jones on 4 July 1813. He estimated that a force consisting of gunboats and barges that could be sailed or rowed, manned by sailors and those in the shipbuilding industries, could engage British landing parties in the shallow waters of the Bay.〔http://www.fortmchenryguard.org/sea_fencibles_2.php Manacle,Rick+Brian Auer〕 He set sail in April 1814 with these eighteen ships: seven barges, six barges, two gunboats, one row-galley, one lookout boat and his flagship, the sloop-rigged, self-propelled floating battery USS ''Scorpion'', mounting two long guns and two carronades.
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