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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 2002

U.S. Frigate Constitution engaging HMS Java,
29 December 1812


Artwork by an unidentified artist, depicting Constitution (in left center, seen in broadside) raking and dismasting Java (at right, seen from astern) off the coast of Brazil.

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    Image posted 7 December 2009