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CSPAN3 July 4, 2012

nicole eustace. the book is 1812, war and the passions of patriotism. we want to thank you for joining us on american history tv. thank you so much for having me. thanks. you re watching american history tv which you can see every weekend here on c-span 3. this july 4th we re highlighting the war of 1812 bicentennial, taking an in-depth look at the causes and course of the little-known war that bolstered america s international credibility, fostered a new sense of patriotism and gave us our national anthem. we continue now with american artifacts. each week, american history tv s american artifacts visits historic places to learn the story of the united states through objects. in 1812, joshua barney proposed creating a flotilla of american barges to defend the chesapeake bay area against british ships. in august 1814, commodore barney was forced to destroy and sink his fleet of about 15 vessels in maryland to prevent their capture. single vessel, the suspected ....

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CSPAN3 July 4, 2012

this july 4th we re highlighting the war of 1812 by centennial taking a look at the war that bolstered america s credibility and gave us our national anthem. we continue now with american artifacts. each week american history tv s american artifacts visit historic places to learn the story of the united states through objects. in 1812, joshua barney proposed creating american barges to defend the chesapeake bay area against british ships. in august 1814, he was forced to sink his vessels to prevent their capture. a single vessel, the suspected flagship scorpian was discovered under the mud and partially excavated. robert neland is leading a team to further study the work. american tv traveled up the river to learn about the project and visit the navy s underwater lab in the washington navy yard where artifacts from the ship are studied. we re going to be going up the highway bridge. it s the end of pennsylvania avenue. the same pennsylvania avenue that runs from d.c. ....

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CSPAN3 June 16, 2012

his ships, and when the british tried to take them to set them on fire, he exploded them with gun powder, which he did effectively, and it was at this point we are now where the british guide came upriver, that they can see the mast of barney s flotilla and soon afterwards saw the ships on fire and heard the explosions from the powdered kegs that were set. they went further upriver and found the fleet entirely scuttled except for one vessel that the fuse went off. they were able to capture this vessel and bring it down river with them. there s also a series of merchant vessels that moved up the river with barney s flotilla to avoid capture from the british and also scuttled or the british themselves set them on fire and destroyed them. so the river was certainly deeper during that time period, but we also know it got very shallow up river where the flotilla was scuttled. because they were taken upriver as far as they could possibly go. there was some thought about tryin ....

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CSPAN3 June 16, 2012

seniority within the navy he was made a commodore of this whole flow fill la. part of the navy, also separate from the navy. and on his first war job with the flow fill tilla. he ran into superior british ships who chased him up the patuxent river. he fought battles. at one point bottled up in saint leonard s creek and was able to fight his way out but he couldn t find his way into the bay. forced to come further and further up river. british following him, forces building until the point that he got so far up river he could not get any further up river and it was apparent that british could capture his ships. so he was ordered by the secretary of the navy to abandon his ships, and when the british tried to take them to set them on fire he exploded them with gun powder, which he did effectively, and at this point we are now where the british guide came up river, that they can see the mast of barney s flotilla and soon afterwards saw the ships on fire and heard the explo ....

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CSPAN3 June 11, 2012

studied. this is the patuxent river, flows into the chesapeake bay. we ll go up river of the highway 4 bridge, and highway 4 is the actually very end of pennsylvania avenue. same pennsylvania avenue that runs from d.c. and runs up to the patuxent river. the scorpion is believed to be one mile, two miles up river from that bridge. so we re about 30 minutes from washington, d.c., 20, 25 minutes from a23457 police, maryland, and probably about 40 minutes from baltimore. in 1814, the river was deeper, perhaps wider as well. there s been a lot of sedimentation from agricultural runoff since 1814. at this time, you know, during the early 19th century and then this the 18th century, sea-going vessels were able to go very far up river. sedimentation prevented that by the mid-19th century and by the early 20th century, mechanized agriculture, there was a great influx of sediment into the river. during the war of 1812, the chesapeake was pretty much undefended. the british had ....

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