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USN 902787 American Schooner LOTTERY Captured in the Chesapeake by Boats from British Frigates, February 1813

American Schooner LOTTERY Captured in the Chesapeake by Boats from British Frigates, February 1813
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Title: American Schooner LOTTERY Captured in the Chesapeake by Boats from British Frigates, February 1813
Caption: On 8 February 1813, nine boats from the British frigates HMS MAIDSTONE, Captain George Burdett, HMS BELVIDERA, Captain Richard Byron, HMS DEMON, Captain James Sanders, and HMS STATIRA, Captain Hassard Stacpoole, under the command of Lieutenant Kelly Nager of the MAIDSTONE attacked, in the Chesapeake, the United States schooner LOTTERY of six 12-pounder carronades and twenty-nine men, Captain John Southcombe. After a most determined resistance, the privateer was boarded and carried. The American captain was mortally wounded and nineteen men killed and wounded. The British had one man killed and five wounded.
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Catalog #: USN 902787
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Original Creator: Artist, Warren (attributed)
After this Year: 1812
Before this Year: 1815
Original Medium: Watercolor Painting, BW Photo
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