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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 56770
Action between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon,
1 June 1813
Engraving from the "Memoirs of Admiral Broke", entitled
"Trecherous Attack on Captain Broke", depicting the
wounding of Shannon's Commanding Officer, Captain Philip
Bowes Vere Broke, during the boarding and capture of USS Chesapeake.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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