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Chesapeake Bay Flotilla

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worth bringing away I caused to be burnt, such as were in good condition, I directed to be moved to Pig Point. Whilst employed taking these vessels a few shots were fired at us by some of the men of the flotilla from the bushes on the shore near us, but Lieutenant Scott whom I had landed for that purpose, soon got hold of them and made them prisoners. Some horsemen likewise shewed themselves on the neighbouring heights, but a rocket or two depended them without resistance. Now spreading his men across the country the enemy retreated to a distance and left us in quiet possession of the town, the neighbourhood and our prizes.
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the sloop bearing the broad pendant to be on fire, and she very soon afterwards blew up. I now saw clearly that they were all abandoned and on fire with trains to their magazines, and out of the seventeen vessels which composed this formidable and so much vaunted flotilla sixteen were in quick succession blown to atoms, and the seventeenth, in which the fire had not taken, were captured. The commodore's sloop was a large armed vessel, the others were gun boats all having a long gun in the bow and a
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On June 26, after the arrival of troops commanded by U.S. Army Colonel Decius Wadsworth, and U.S. Marine Captain Samuel Miller, Barney attempted a breakout. A simultaneous attack from land and sea on the blockading frigates at the mouth of St. Leonard's creek allowed the flotilla to move out of the
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as we opened the reach above Pig Point, I plainly discovered Commodore Barney's broad pendant in the headmost vessel, a large sloop and the remainder of the flotilla extending in a long line astern of her. Our boats now advanced towards them as rapidly as possible, but on nearing them, we observed
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in the stern, but the calibre of the guns and the number of the crew of each differed in proportion to the size of the boat, varying from 32 pdrs. and 60 men, to 18 pdrs. and 40 men. I found here laying above the flotilla under its protection, thirteen merchant schooners, some of which not being
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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. He set sail in April 1814 with these eighteen ships: seven
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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.
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Approximately 500 of the flotilla men then marched to Baltimore, joining others there, and were assigned to the U.S. Naval Command Second Regiment. They manned the following posts in the defense of Baltimore:
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U.S. Navy Honor Guard salute during August 23, 2014 dedication of official Battle Of Bladensburg Memorial by the State of Maryland, with the bronze relief sculpture showing a wounded Commodore
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After the Battle of Baltimore, the Flotilla did not participate in any further engagements. On February 15, 1815, Congress repealed the short lived
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When the new Route 4 Hills Bridge was built in 1990, remnants of Barney's ships were found buried more than five feet below the riverbed.
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On August 22, the British attempted to capture Barney's squadron at Queen Anne. In his report of the affair, the tactical commander,
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Register of Patients at Naval Hospital Washington DC 1814 With The Names of American Wounded From The Battle of Bladensburg
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and the boats until they reached the protection of the two 74s. The American flotilla then retreated into the
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in an attempt to destroy it. August 11, 1814, the Flotilla left St. Leonard's Creek and sailed north up the
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and return it to the Bay. However, concerned that the Flotilla would fall into British hands,
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Jones ordered Barney to take his squadron as far up the Patuxent as possible, to
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located the fleet. Further study of the wrecks, including one vessel dubbed the
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75-foot (23 m) barges, six 50-foot (15 m) barges, two gunboats, one
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U.S. Marines alongside sailors manning the cannons on August 23, 1814 at
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Joshua Barney submitted a plan for the defense of the Chesapeake Bay to
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fighting alongside an unidentified marine and Flotilla sailor,
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A replica of one of Joshua Barney's gunboats today sits at the
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Marine Corps Barracks at 8th and I Streets in Washington, D.C.
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Riverine Warfare: The U.S. Navy's Operations on Inland Waters
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were attached to the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla to protect the
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On August 24, Barney and the flotilla participated in the
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In 1978, a survey of the upper Patuxent River using a
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Battles continued through June 10. British commander
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wearing the uniform of the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla.
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