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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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14 May 2003