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- The event, now known as the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, angered the American public and government and was a precipitating factor that led to the War of 1812. As a result of the affair, Chesapeake ' s commanding officer, James Barron, was court-martialed and the United States instituted the Embargo Act of 1807 against the United Kingdom.
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The Chesapeake–Leopard affair was a naval engagement off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on June 22, 1807, between the British fourth-rate HMS Leopard and the American frigate USS Chesapeake. The crew of Leopard pursued, attacked, and boarded the American frigate, looking for deserters from the Royal Navy. [1]
- June 22, 1807
- British victory
- off Norfolk, Virginia
In June 1807, the Chesapeake set sail from Norfolk for the Mediterranean. Its decks scattered with cargo and its guns unwisely stowed, the vessel made an appealing target for the crew of a British vessel, the HMS Leopard, who intercepted it off the coast of Norfolk and aimed to take revenge.
May 7, 2018 · The Chesapeake-Leopard affair was an engagement between the British warship, the HMS Leopard, and the American frigate, the USS Chesapeake. The crew of the British HMS Leopard ship confronted the American Chesapeake ship in search of the four of its members who had deserted the Royal Navy.
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Jul 2, 2019 · USS Chesapeake was a frigate built for the US Navy in 1800 that was attacked by HMS Leopard in 1807 and later captured during the War of 1812.
Despite their country's youth, Americans were not accustomed to losing naval battles during the War of 1812. When the USS Chesapeake was quickly and soundly beaten by HMS Shannon virtually within sight and sound of Boston, the American public, fueled by its press, looked for answers.
CHESAPEAKE AFFAIR. On 22 June 1807, off the Virginia Capes, the Leopard, a fifty-gun ship of the British navy, opened fire on the Chesapeake, a forty-gun frigate of the U.S. Navy.
On 22 June 1807 off Hampton Roads, Virginia, the American frigate Chesapeake was stopped by the British ship Leopard, whose commander demanded the surrender of four seamen alleged to have deserted from the British ships Melampus and Halifax.
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