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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 2086

Action between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, 19 August 1812


Print of an artwork by William Strickland, "drawn for Naval Chronicle", depicting the British frigate Guerriere losing her fore and main masts.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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18 February 2003