LYCOS RETRIEVER 
War of 1812: Royal Navy
built 235 days ago
On July 4 1813, Joshua Barney, a Revolutionary War naval hero, convinced the Navy Department to build the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, a squadron of twenty barges to defend the Chesapeake Bay. Launched in April 1814, the squadron was quickly cornered in the Patuxent River, and while successful in harassing the Royal Navy, they were powerless to stop the British campaign that ultimately led to the "Burning of Washington".
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Brady Oliver Bryson, a lawyer who had been a member of the prosecution team at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, died. He joined the Navy in 1944 and was assigned to an intelligence unit that specialized in breaking Russian codes. At the end of the war, he was sent to Nuremberg to serve as liaison between US and Soviet legal staffs. Later Mr. Bryson was put in charge of a small team assembling documentary material and preparing a trial brief on the persecution of Jews. When that job was completed, he joined the trial team that prepared the case against Hjalmar Schacht, the former Reich minister of economics and president of the Reichsbank.
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In a terse Press Release issued Wednesday, Jan. 16, the Front Royal-Warren County Chamber of Commerce announced the resignation, effective immediately, of President Sharon Baroncelli. Baroncelli had held the position for four years. The press release credited her with increasing membership by 15 percent and instituting programs to benefit not only that membership, but ... the entire business community.
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Macdonough commanded the lake through the summer of 1814, but word that the British were building a frigate at Isle aux Noix led to the construction of one additional warship for the U.S. Navy squadron. On July 23 two hundred shipwrights under the direction of Adam Brown (brother of Noah) laid the keel for a 20-gun brig at Vergennes.
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