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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 63181

Action between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon, 1 June 1813


Text accompanying the four lithographs by L. Haghe, published by Smith, Elder & Company, London, in 1830.
This text provides general background information on the battle, plus detailed descriptions of the actions represented in each of the prints.
For reproductions of the lithographs, see:
Photo # NH 63177-KN (Plate No. 1),
Photo # NH 63179-KN (Plate No. 2),
Photo # NH 63178-KN (Plate No. 3), and
Photo # NH 63180-KN (Plate No. 4).

Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, Maryland. Beverly R. Robinson Collection.

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13 May 2003