Charles Ball wearing the uniform of the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla.
Active
1813-1815
Country
United States
Allegiance
United States
Branch
U.S. Navy
Role
artillery
Size
4,370 men (with an additional 700 U.S. marines attached to naval force)
Part of
U.S. Department of the Navy
Engagements
War of 1812
Battle of St. Jerome Creek (1814)
Battle of St. Leonard's Creek (1814)
Battle of Queen Anne (1814)
Battle of Bladensburg (1814)
Battle of Baltimore (1814)
Commanders
Notable commanders
Commodore Joshua Barney
Military unit
Chesapeake campaign
Part of War of 1812
Date
April, 1814 - February 15, 1815
Location
Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, Washington D.C., Baltimore
Result
American strategic victory
Belligerents
United States
U.S. Navy U.S. Army Maryland Militia Virginia Militia District of Columbia Militia Pennsylvania Militia
British Empire Royal Navy British Army Royal Marines Colonial Marines
Commanders and leaders
Joshua Barney
Sir George Cockburn Sir John Warren Alexander Cochrane Robert Ross
Strength
4,370 sailors 700 marines Army regulars militia
Ships:
Seven 75-foot (23 m) barges
Six 50-foot (15 m) barges
Two gunboats
One row-galley
One lookout boat and his flagship
One 49-foot (15 m) sloop-rigged
One self-propelled floating battery USS Scorpion,
mounting two long guns and two carronades
Large: sailors marines Army regulars
96 Ships:
11 ships of the line
34 frigates
52 other vessels
Casualties and losses
Artillery
Scuttling and burning of Flotilla vessels
minimal
The Chesapeake Bay Flotilla was a motley collection of barges and gunboats that the United States assembled under the command of Joshua Barney, an 1812 privateer captain, to stall British attacks in the Chesapeake Bay which came to be known as the "Chesapeake campaign" during the War of 1812. The Flotilla engaged the Royal Navy in several inconclusive battles before Barney was forced to scuttle the vessels themselves on August 22, 1814. The men of the Flotilla then served onshore in the defense of Washington, DC and Baltimore. It was disbanded on February 15, 1815, after the end of the war.
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Chesapeake campaign 1813–1814
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Havre de Grace
Craney Island
Ocracoke
1st St. Michaels
2nd St. Michaels
1814
Bladensburg
Washington
Alexandria
Caulk's Field
North Point
McHenry
Farnham Church
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