naval Battle delivered on June 1st 1813, with broad of Boston, during the War of 1812.

The American frigate of the US Navy Chesapeake (38 guns) ordered by the Captain James Lawrence leaves the wearing of Boston to go to face the British frigate of the Royal Navy Shannon (38 guns) of the captain Philip Broke, who crosses with the broad one.

The Americans are trustful: their ship fast, well is armed and its crew many and is actuated. Moreover, the American frigates gained a succession of impressive victories at the time of the duels which opposed them to the British frigates and moral sailors is excellent.

This certainty in the victory is shared by the civil population which embarks on clouds of pleasure boats where fishing to accompany the war building and to attend the glorious confrontation which prepares.

Hélàs, the spectacle hardly answers the hopes of the spectators. The British frigate, ordered well and operated by very experienced sailors makes only one mouthful of its adversary. It sends two broadsides to him then approaches him to touch it and captures it after a Abordage epic. The Americans defend themselves like lions; James Lawrence, mortally wounded, exorte until the end to fight, shouting " to them; don' T give up the ship" (do not give up the ship), but the English are strongest. The Chesapeake overcome is towed and taken along triumphantly to Halifax, in Nova Scotia, by the winners.

The combat lasted in all and for only one about fifteen minutes. The British navy hitherto humiliated took a bright revenge. 148 American sailors are killed or wounded at the time of the battle against 83 on the side of the Royal Navy. Philip Broke, which led its men to the attack, counts among the casualties.

It remains more with the piteous spectators to only return to the port, with at the head the images of one humiliating demolished. They are besides in that more happy than their counterparts northerner assisting with Battle of Bull Run, delivered some decades later during American Civil War, and which spectators became quite involuntary actors when they were constrained to give up in all haste picnic and other frivolities to gallop in.liaison.with their routed army, in order to escape the winners Southerners.

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