Heneage Dundas

A bit of background from our friends at Wikipedia(!) The North American Station was formed in 1745 to counter French forces in North America: for the first sixty years the headquarters of the squadron was at Halifax Naval Yard in Nova Scotia.The headquarters for North American Station of the Royal Navy was Halifax from 1758-1818. Land and buildings for a permanent Naval Yard were purchased by the Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax in 1758 and the Yard was officially commissioned in 1759. The Yard served as the main base for the British Royal Navy in North American during the Seven Years' War, the American Revolution, the French Revolutionary Wars and the War of 1812.

Captain Peter Curry was supervising the laying down of a keel for a new U.S. navy vessel in the winter of 1797-98. When Curry returned to Detroit from the shipyard on the River Rouge in January, he discovered that Cornelius Mahoney, the sailor whom he had left in charge of his effects, “had stolen & drank his liquor &ca.” The furious naval captain “thought proper to chastise him” by “beating his servant barbarously,” after which the terrified Mahoney took flight, seeking refuge in the home of Peter Audrain.

El Duderino, if you're not into that whole brevity thing.

I know the Americans had a shipyard on the Rouge River. Captain Curry commanding around 1798.

Like Doctor Who, I have regenerated! (I was once Hatter, and a few others...)

Gibson is a Detroiter, so Amherstberg is right up his alley. So to speak.

Sugar plantations were horrific places.

Calling for All Stout Fellows & Loyal Subjects of His Most Britannic Majesty! His Majesty's Royal Navy is commissioning man-o-war at the Halifax Naval Dockyards in the province of Nova Scotia to form part of the Squadron of the Blue under the command of Captain Gibson, RN, Commodore. (HMS Asia entering Halifax in 1797) This squadron of the Sealords VF's Royal Navy will be a North American based group of players for Naval Action. Sealords is an online community of naval gamers of long-standing. Be sure to drop by our website and forum (currently undergoing refurbishment): www.sealordsvf.org GOD SAVE THE KING!

I agree. Stand alone battles is an essential feature in my mind.