HISTORY OF THE U.S. NAVY: LOGS AND SAILS | 1775 - 1815

ugust 19th, 1812. Seven hundred miles east of Boston, the USS Constitution closes on HMS Guerriere, a frigate of a navy that, in its captain's opinion, has not lost a single-ship duel since the days of the Armada. In under thirty minutes, Guerriere is a dismasted wreck, and a sailor's shout gives the American ship her nickname: Old Ironsides. How did a country that could barely afford a navy end up beating the Royal Navy in its most famous duels? This documentary follows the American Navy from its first two armed ships in 1775 to the end of the War of 1812: privateers and the Continental Navy, John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard, a navy sold for scrap, Joshua Humphreys' six frigates, the Quasi-War with France, Jefferson's gunboats and the shores of Tripoli, and the frigate duels and lake battles of 1812–1815. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 Constitution vs. Guerriere 4:12 The Wooden Walls 4:24 Chapter 1: A Maritime People Without a Navy 10:44 Chapter 2: Washington's Navy and the Privateer Economy 15:41 Chapter 3: The Continental Navy at War 30:56 Chapter 4: Anatomy of a Sailing Warship 40:19 Chapter 5: A Navy Sold for Scrap 45:48 Chapter 6: The Six Frigates 55:22 Chapter 7: The Quasi-War 1:01:06 Chapter 8: Jefferson's Gunboats, and the Shores of Tripoli 1:10:51 Chapter 9: The Road to 1812 1:16:54 Chapter 10: 1812–1815, the Frigate Duels and the Lake War 1:32:19 Chapter 11: The Men Before the Mast 1:37:08 Chapter 12: Why Did the Americans Win Those Duels? 1:43:13 Chapter 13: What the Wooden Navy Left Behind Next time: steam, iron and the ironclads. Subscribe so you don't miss it. IMAGES: Paintings, engravings, maps and documents from the Library of Congress, the Naval History and Heritage Command, the National Archives, Royal Museums Greenwich, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art and Wikimedia Commons. Modern photographs of museum ships are credited as modern images. Later paintings of 18th- and 19th-century events are artistic reconstructions. MUSIC (public domain recordings by Musopen) : Haydn: String Quartet Op. 64 No. 5 "The Lark", II. Adagio cantabile Mozart: String Quartet No. 15, K421, II. Andante Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 18 No. 6, II. Adagio ma non troppo Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 "Dissonance", K465, II. Andante cantabile Borodin: String Quartet No. 2, III. Notturno Mozart: Symphony No. 40, K550, II. Andante Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6, Op. 80, III. Adagio Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral", II. Andante molto mosso Dvořák: String Quartet No. 10, Op. 51, III. Romanza Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 "Scottish", III. Adagio #USNavy #History #WarOf1812