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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42069

Action between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, 19 August 1812


Line engraving by D. Kimberly after a painting by Thomas Birch, published during the 19th Century by Samuel Walker, Boston. It depicts the dismasting of the British frigate Guerriere.

Donation of Colonel J.R. Taylor, October 1938.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 170KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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18 February 2003