Battle of Lake Borgne
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The Battle of Lake Borgne was a coastal engagement between the Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy in the American South theatre of the War of 1812. It occurred on December 14, 1814 on Lake Borgne. The British victory allowed them to disembark their troops unhindered nine days later and to launch an offensive upon New Orleans on land.
British and American Gunboats in Action on Lake Borgne, 14 December 1814, Thomas Lyde Hornbrook
Battle of Lake Borgne
HMS Seahorse (1794)
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HMS Seahorse was a 38-gun Artois-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1794 and broken up in 1819.
HMS Seahorse capturing Badiri-i-Zaffer, 6 July 1808
HM Frigates Seahorse and Cerebus, off Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey in 1796
Seahorse captured the French frigate Sensible on 27 June 1798 in the Strait of Sicily
A banner bearing the arms of Baron Ferdinand von Hompesch, 71st Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, in 1798 Napoleon's French forces captured Malta on their way to invade Egypt. Seahorse later seized the banner from the French at Malta, about 1797