Chesapeake Bay Flotilla

Chesapeake Bay Flotilla
Chesapeake Bay Flotilla
	Charles Ball wearing the uniform of the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla.
Active	1813-1815
Country	United States
Allegiance	United States
Branch	U.S. Navy
Role	artillery
Size	4,370 men (with an additional 700 U.S. marines attached to naval force)
Part of	U.S. Department of the Navy
Engagements	War of 1812 Battle of St. Jerome Creek (1814); Battle of St. Leonard's Creek (1814); Battle of Queen Anne (1814); Battle of Bladensburg (1814); Battle of Baltimore (1814);
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Commodore Joshua Barney

The Chesapeake Bay Flotilla was a motley collection of barges and gunboats that the United States assembled under the command of Joshua Barney, an 1812 privateer captain, to stall British attacks in the Chesapeake Bay which came to be known as the "Chesapeake campaign" during the War of 1812. The Flotilla engaged the Royal Navy in several inconclusive battles before Barney was forced to scuttle the vessels themselves on August 22, 1814. The men of the Flotilla then served onshore in the defense of Washington, DC and Baltimore. It was disbanded on February 15, 1815, after the end of the war.