{"id":129419,"date":"2022-08-19T10:01:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T14:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129419"},"modified":"2022-08-19T10:27:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T14:27:16","slug":"us-navy-forces-brit-warship-to-strike-colors-scuttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129419","title":{"rendered":"US Navy Forces Brit Warship to Strike Colors, Scuttle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-129421 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ironsides-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ironsides-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ironsides-500x249.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ironsides-768x383.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ironsides-1536x765.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ironsides-2048x1020.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Huzzah, her sides are made of iron!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On this day, 19 August 1812, a legend was born. <em>USS Constitution<\/em>, under the command of Captain Isaac Hull, sailed from Boston on 2 August, 1812 to the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. On the afternoon of 19 August, 1812 Hull and his crew sighted the British frigate <em>HMS Guerriere<\/em>, under the command of Captain James Richard Dacres.<\/p>\n<p>As <em>Guerriere<\/em> closed to within a mile of <em>Constitution<\/em>, the British hoisted their colors and the two ships engaged in a fire fight. <em>Constitution\u2019s <\/em>thick hull, composed of Georgia white and live oak, proved resilient to enemy cannonballs. During the engagement, an American sailor was heard exclaiming, \u201cHuzza! Her sides are made of iron! See where the shot fell out!\u201d After intense combat, the severely damaged <em>Guerriere <\/em>was forced to surrender.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, Hull made the difficult decision to scuttle <em>Guerriere<\/em>. <em>Constitution <\/em>sailed for Boston and arrived on 30 August. News of <em>Constitution\u2018s <\/em>victory quickly spread through town and throngs of cheering Bostonians greeted Hull and his crew. A militia company escorted Hull to a reception at the Exchange Coffee House and more dinners, presentations and awards followed in the ensuing weeks, months, and years. <em>USS Constitution<\/em>, for her impressive strength in battle, earned the nicknamed \u201cOld Ironsides.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/our-collections\/art\/exhibits\/conflicts-and-operations\/the-war-of-1812\/uss-constitution-vs-hms-guerriere.html\">Navy.mil<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sir, when the love of peace degenerates into fear of war, it becomes of all passions the most despicable.&#8221; &#8211; Senator Giles of Virginia, to President Thomas Jefferson, before the War of 1812<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Huzzah, her sides are made of iron!&#8221; On this day, 19 August 1812, a legend was &hellip; <a title=\"US Navy Forces Brit Warship to Strike Colors, Scuttle\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129419\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Navy Forces Brit Warship to Strike Colors, Scuttle<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,9,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bravo-zulu","category-foreign-policy","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}