Constitution Escapes From British Squadron

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The First Naval Officer Who Fell

Scrimshaw Art Of The Frigate Constitution At The Smithsonian

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"Lieut. William S. Bush, was a native of Wilmington (Delaware.)  His father, Capt. John Bush was a meritorious officer in the revolutionary war, and he was the nephew of the brave Major Lewis Bush, who fell supporting the cause of his country at the battle of Brandywine."

"The brave and amiable lieutenant William Bush, the first naval officer who fell in this war, distinguished himself by intrepidly leading on the boarders when he received the ball which deprived his country of his services." [Source]

War Of 1912?! Ignore The Typo

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Return of killed and wounded on board the U. States frigate Constitution, Isaac Hull, Esq., Captain, in the action with H. M. S. Guerriere,  Jas. R. Dacres, Esq., Captain; on the 20th of August, 1812.

Warping Or Kedging

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Warping or kedging (was mentioned in Commodore Charles Morris's autobiography).

"...observing the benefit that the Constitution had derived from warping, Captain Byron did the same, bending all his hawsers to one another, and working two kedge anchors at the same time by paying the warp out through one hawse-hole as it was run in through the other opposite."

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Captain Broke's Challenge

 From The Fight For A Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812:

"Old Ironsides" [Constitution]

"Given time to shake them together in hard service at sea, he [Captain James Lawrence] would have made a smart crew of them no doubt, as Isaac Hull had done in five weeks with the men of the Constitution, but destiny ordered otherwise."

"In the spring of 1813 the harbor of Boston was blockaded by the thirty-eight-gun British frigate Shannon, Captain Philip Vere Broke, who had been in this ship for seven years."

"Lawrence's men were unknown to each other and to their officers, and they had never been to sea together. The last draft came aboard, in fact, just as the anchor was weighed and the Chesapeake stood out to meet her doom. Even most of her officers were new to the ship. They had no chance whatever to train or handle the rabble between decks. Now Captain Broke had been anxious to fight this American frigate as matching the Shannon in size and power. He had already addressed to Captain Lawrence a challenge whose wording was a model of courtesy but which was provocative to the last degree. A sailor of Lawrence's heroic temper was unlikely to avoid such a combat, stimulated as he was by the unbroken success of his own navy in duels between frigates."

Close Engagement

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The U.S.S. Constitution versus The H.M.S. Guerriere.

The Constitution And Java

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The website, Constitution Vs. Java, contended that "The clash between USS Constitution and HMS Java was the third American frigate victory of the War of 1812 and in many ways the most significant."

Read how the battle unfolded here.

Other Constitution posts:  The Constitution Of U.S. Frigate Constitution, A Cannon From "Old Ironsides," U.S.S. Constitution Museum, Old Ironsides Launched October 21st  and First Frigate Action.

First Frigate Action

August 19th battle:

The USS Constitution versus The HMS Guerriere 

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A blogger commemorated the military action.

Described as the first Frigate Action in the War of 1812.

A New Article About Old Ironsides

An article about Old Ironsides on the Boston NPR site was mentioned in the The Weekly Genealogist.

"Bonner says most people know about the ship’s involvement in the War of 1812 — often called the second war of independence — but, he says, few people know about the ship’s history in Vietnam more than 100 years before the U.S. entered a war there."

In The London Archives

Guide to the materials in London archives for the history of the United ... included the following:

5444.  Proceedings of the court-martial, at Halifax, of the officers and part of the crew of the Picton, captured by the U.S.S. Constitution.  Aug. 3, 1814. (Copies of the official correspondence relating to the capture.)...

Now the gallant Constitution, 44, again appears on the scene of strife.
She was on the coast of Surinam at the beginning of February, and on the 14th of that month she captured the British war schooner Picton, 16, together with a letter-of-marque which was under her convoy. [Source]