Excerpt
The new ship and commodore Chauncey's prize, the Duke of Gloucester, are yet safe in Sackett's Harbor.Historical wording and forms retained where stated.
Lakes, Shipyards, and a Continental Naval Arms Race
Documentary edition · packet 07
Report on the defense of Sackets Harbor
Brown's same-day report identifies the attacking commanders and records that the unfinished General Pike survived. It supplies a document rather than a detached column heading.
29 May 1813Official military reportRead the chapter →
Modernized reading
Brown reported that the unfinished General Pike and the captured Duke of Gloucester survived the attack.Plain-language reading; not a substitute for quotation.
Editorial method: One complete sentence is reproduced from the 1823 printed witness. The printed spelling of Sackett's Harbor is retained.
Annotations
- new shipUSS General Pike, then under construction. A fire was extinguished and the ship was launched on June 12.
- prizeA captured enemy vessel adjudicated as lawful wartime property.
Witness and provenance
- Creator
- Jacob Brown
- Witness used
- Brown's report to Henry Dearborn as printed in John Brannan's 1823 compilation, page 164.
- Repository or edition
- Internet Archive
- Collection
- John Brannan, Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States
- Identifier
- Jacob Brown to Henry Dearborn, 29 May 1813, p. 164
- Transmission
- Brown wrote on the day of the attack; Brannan printed the report in 1823. The linked scan is the cited witness.
- Rights
- Public-domain military correspondence and printed edition.