"Constitution vs. Guerriere" Topic
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| Choctaw | 19 Aug 2022 6:11 a.m. PST |
On this date in history the U.S.S. Constitution defeated the HMS Guerriere. Guerriere was a crack ship but couldn't match the construction and elite crew of Constitution. link |
| Brechtel198 | 18 Nov 2022 4:45 a.m. PST |
After a solid string of victories, both fleet and ship-to-ship, over the French navy beginning in 1793, British training and gunnery had fallen off. The defeat of the Guerriere was the first in a long string of US victories in ship-to-ship engagements that lasted throughout the war. The US Navy didn't always win, but they won the overwhelming majority of the ship-to-ship engagements with the Royal Navy which undoubtedly shocked the British naval establishment. |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.