Photo #: NH 42072
USS Hornet blockading HMS Bonne Citoyenne
Artwork depicting USS Hornet (foreground) off São
Salvador (Bahia), Brazil, with the British sloop of war Bonne
Citoyenne blockaded inside the harbor, circa 13 December
1812 - 24 January 1813. Hornet's Commanding Officer, James
Lawrence, had challenged the enemy warship to a single-ship action,
but Bonne Citoyenne, which carried a significant amount
of money, declined the offer.
The original was in a journal kept by William H. Macy of a whaling
voyage to the Pacific Ocean in the ship Potomac, 1841-1845.
Courtesy of Charles H. Taylor, 1936.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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