By golly, Les, I knew there must have been a bunch of other American warships at the time...and I wondered why one never hears much about them. ;-) One only tends to hear about the battles which were won by the Americans...or in the case of the Chesapeake and the Shannon, one hears a good deal about the American captain's glorious dying words "Don't give up the ship!" (they did, however, give it up...after a desperate fight and very heavy casualties)