Show american victory in war of 1812 one hundred bundred years ago occurred the battle of the barges between a force a of I 1 E english ng 1113 h fr from 0 m th the 0 blockading squadron in chesapeake bay and a flotilla of barges and gunboats gun boats designed to aid in the defense of the city of washington commodore Comm odoro barney in command of the american flotilla being threatened with attack by several large british warships had taken his boats up the patuxent river and found a refuge in st leonards leonar ds creek the british followed with a superior force of barges and small schooners sch boners ners having no guns with which ch to wage a fight at long range commodore barney dasher dashel forward into the midst of the enemy soon the barges were engaged in desperate hand to hand conflicts for more than an hour the action raged both sides fighting with vigor and gallantry but the americans having pierced the british line the enemy abandoned the fight and mad to tn china |