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Hide HeaderHMS Shannon vs USS Chesapeake
The battle between the HMS Shannon and the USS Chesapeake occured approximately 18 miles from Boston Lighthouse (Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 By David Stephen Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler)
Yes. I was astonished too. The first I heard of it was when he asked Philip Broke to perform the ceremony -a captain can marry people, you know, aboard his own ship - and although Broke could not very well do so that day, seeing that Chesapeake was standing out of Nantasket roads, I know he would have done so after the action, if he had not been so badly wounded he could not even write his own dispatch.
The Surgeons Mate - Patrick O'Brian
