With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

Barney greatly distinguished himself during the War of 1812, commanding the Chesapeake Bay gunboat flotilla and then a brigade of sailors and marines who offered the stoutest resistance to the British ...

Over the course of the Revolutionary War, this force fielded about 65 ships, ranging from small gunboats to frigates ... a few years later by the war of 1812. The U.S. Navy would have its ups ...