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May 16, 2022 · Barclay, with ships adrift, a third of his men wounded or killed and himself injured, gave up as the Americans began to clean up what little resistance the British had left.
Aug 1, 2008 · His own last words were “Don’t give up the ship.” When news reached America of the death of these two officers, Captain George Crowninshield from Salem, Massachusetts, called for their bodies to be brought back to the United States.
James Lawrence (October 1, 1781 – June 4, 1813) was an officer of the United States Navy. During the War of 1812, he commanded USS Chesapeake in a single-ship action against HMS Shannon, commanded by Philip Broke. He is probably best known today for his last words, "Don't give up the ship!", uttered during the capture of the Chesapeake.
Lawrence, mortally wounded, issued his last, futile command, “Don’t give up the ship!” Lawrence’s heroism inspired his brother officers, including the American commander on Lake Erie, Oliver Hazard Perry.
May 7, 2019 · THERE WOULD BE no second chance, and U. S. Navy Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry knew it. As he approached six British warships on the morning of September 13, 1813, Perry was determined to end the naval campaign on Lake Erie that day.
Don't Give Up the Ship: Directed by Norman Taurog. With Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill, Diana Spencer, Mickey Shaughnessy. During the 1950s, a military panel grills Junior Officer John Paul Steckler to find the whereabouts of a Navy destroyer that he temporarily commanded during WWII and is missing.
“Don't give up the ship!” Tradition has it that Captain James Lawrence said these heroic words after being mortally wounded in the engagement between his ship, the U.S. frigate Chesapeake , and...
