(LAST UPDATED TUESDAY 18 JULY, 2001)

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	The French 3rd rate (74 guns) Duguay Trouin. This image was made in england in I believe the 1890's. This vessel fought in the French fleet at Trafalgar. She was captured by the Royal Navy at Strachan's Action on 3 November 1805 and, after rebuilding, became HMS Implacable.
	Another image of the Duguay Trouin taken sometime prior to her destruction by the Government of Great Britain. Read more about it by clicking HERE.
	The British Second rate (80 guns) Foudroyant. HMS Foudroyant was built at Plymouth dockyard and launched 31 March, 1798. She had a builders measure of 2.062 tons, was 184 feet long and 52.5 feet in Beam. She was Nelson's flagship after the battle of the Nile. This image is part of a series of photographic studies of old Royal Navy craft compiled and published in the IXth Century. More on HMS Foudroyant HERE.
	A Civil War Era photograph of the Macedonian (Far right) and The U.S.S. Constitution (left).
	The Bonhomme Richard fires on HMS Serapis (September, 1779).
	Stephen Decatur burns two captured American Frigates at Tripoli harbor 16 February, 1804.
	US Naval forces shell Tripoli 3 August, 1804.
	The "impressment of an an American seaman by the Royal Navy. Between 1803 abd 1807 Britain siezed over 500 American ships and France an additional 200. Other american merchant vessels were detained and searched by Royal Navy vessels and an untold number of American citizens "press ganged" into the British navy. The matter came to a head on 22 June, 1807 during the siezure of USS Chesapeake, an American frigate, by HMF Leopard with a number of her crew being so conscripted. This was a seminal act in motivating America to war in 1812.