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Tango01 | 14 Oct 2020 9:15 p.m. PST |
"Perhaps one of the most evenly matched single ship engagements, at least on paper, with broadside weights of 538 lbs (Shannon) compared to 590 lbs (Chesapeake) and crew numbers of 330 men (Shannon) and 388 men (Chesapeake), has to be the action fought in Massachusetts Bay off Boston on the 1st of June 1813 between HMS Shannon 38-guns and the USS Chesapeake 38-guns; during a war between Great Britain and the United States that even today has the ability to create different interpretations for those in the three nations, Great Britain, Canada and the United States and perhaps four nations, if you include the native Americans intimately caught up in the struggle, and then only among those who know or remember this war within the wider 'Great War' against Napoleon…."
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