The Trafalgar Chronicle New Series 1

3 CONTENTS President’s Foreword – Admiral Sir Jonathon Band 5 Editor’s Foreword – Peter Hore 7 Nicholas Biddle: America’s Revolutionary War Nelson – Chipp Reid 9 The Earliest known ‘Stars and Stripes’– Peter Hore 20 Nelson in Troubled Waters – Joseph F Callo 27 The Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, 1807 – Anthony Bruce 36 Impressment: Politics and People – kathryn Milburn 46 A Boy in Battle – Charles A Fremantle 59 The Rocket’s Red Glare: Francis Scott key and the Star-Spangled Banner – Charles Neimeyer 71 Frédéric Rolette: Un Canadien héros de la guerre de 1812 – Samuel Venière and Caroline Girard 82 Pathfinders: Front-line Hydrographic data-gathering in the Wars of American Independence and 1812 – Michael Barritt 92 Charting the Waters: The Emergence of Modern Marine Charting and Surveying during the Career of James Cook in North American Waters, 1758–67 – Victor Suthren 104 Captain Archibald kennedy, an American in the Royal Navy – Byrne McLeod 114

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