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The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair...
The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair...
Item # 694534
October 15, 1807
INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE, Boston, Oct. 15, 1807 This title has a nice masthead, with an intricate engraving in the middle featuring a heraldic eagle.
The top of page 2 has a report beginning: "Our affairs, growing out of the late hostile attack upon the frigate Chesapeake by the British ship Leopard, remains by the last accounts from England in a very unsettled state..." with more on the particulars.
This was the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, a naval engagement off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, between the two mentioned ship. The crew of Leopard pursued, attacked, and boarded the American frigate, looking for deserters from the Royal Navy. Chesapeake was caught unprepared and after a short battle involving broadsides received from Leopard, the commander of Chesapeake, James Barron, surrendered his vessel to the British. Chesapeake had fired only one shot.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, minor margin wear, generally good condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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