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Chesapeake,
The name of a famous United States frigate that will always be memorable because of her interest-absorbing career.
In the spring of 1807 a small British squadron lay (as they had lately) in American waters, near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, watching some French frigates blockaded at Annapolis.
Three of the crew of one of the British vessels, Melampus, and one of another, Halifax, had deserted, and enlisted on board the Chesapeake, lying at the Washington navy-yard.
The British minister made a formal demand for their surrender.
The United States government refused compliance, because it was ascertained that two of them (colored) were natives of the United States, and there was strong presumptive evidence that the third one was, likewise.
The commodore of the British squadron took the matter into his own hands.
the Chesapeake, going to sea on the morning of June 22, 1807, bearing the pennant of Commodore Barron, was intercepted by the British frigate Leopard, whose
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)
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