: 439, playing in the navy, the American is still a younger brother

While the Americans were happily intercepting British ships, the British North American Squadron, which they had not caught, was also happily intercepting American ships. They headed south along the coast of the United States. First off Boston, they caught three American merchant ships and a returning whaling ship. The British did not have a port available not far away. They could not control these merchant ships and then drive them back to Canada, because the American fleet must be there now.
As for driving directly back to the UK, that is also impossible, because the reserves of fresh water on these ships simply cannot support such ocean voyages. So the British could only board the ship, bring some supplies that their fleet could use, and burn the merchant ship on fire. As for the sailors on the boat, I threw them a small sampan and let them row to the United States by themselves. Anyway, it’s not far from the coast, so I will go ashore after a day or two.
Then they continued south and burned six merchant ships bound for New York in one go near New York. Then at Delaware & Bayou caught two American merchant ships heading to Philadelphia and killed more than a dozen fishing boats. At this time, news that the British naval fleet was attacking American ships at sea also began to spread in the United States through French cable telegrams.
Most of the ships that were planning to leave the United States and heading for Europe were afraid to leave the port, but those ships returning to the United States from Europe did not know about this, and others could not tell them. Therefore, in the following week, the British burned more than a dozen merchant ships to torches in one breath. If you want to compare the tonnage achieved by the battle, the British fleet clearly has the upper hand.
Because there is no radio, the news that the British are raging along the coast of the United States cannot be directly sent to the American fleet that is still waiting in the Cabot Strait. The guys in the American fleet thought that the British North American Squadron was hiding in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. .
The Americans sent another clipper to the Cabot Strait and found the American fleet. Until then, the guys in the American fleet knew that the British fleet had also gone to play a battle. The losses suffered by the United States were even greater than the losses suffered by the British in the Cabot Strait.
Because the British released almost all sailors, the Americans were quite clear about the composition of the British squadron.
"Three steam-sail hybrid battleships, two steam-sail hybrid cruisers. This means that the main warships of the British North American Squadron are there." The US fleet commander, General Cade, made a statement based on what he had learned. Made such a judgment.
He knew that he could not let this British squadron continue to wreak havoc on the American coast, otherwise, it would be useless for him to capture more British merchant ships. However, the whole fleet may not be a good way to go south. This not only gave up the blockade of Canada, but also slowed the speed of response because other ships did not have "Free Trade" and "Common Market" running fast.
So General Cade made such a decision, and he led several other ships to continue intercepting British merchant ships here. Let the two French ships with the fastest speed and the strongest combat effectiveness in the formation rush back immediately to expel and destroy the British fleet.
So "Free Trade" and "Common Market" left the formation and went south.
The news that the United States declared war on Britain also reached Europe at this time. The British immediately planned to send a powerful fleet to teach the Yankees. Hehe, we can't beat the French, can't we still beat you?
But along with this news came another news, that is, the French claimed that the British fleet had attacked a French merchant ship. The French Foreign Minister summoned the British ambassador for this and lodged a strong protest. The British ambassador said that he is not clear about this matter. And he doubts the authenticity of the French news.
However, the authenticity of the news is not really important, it is just an excuse anyway. Under the pretext of this kind of thing, the French can easily make a lot of it, just like a country in later generations can easily take out a lot of washing powder.
Then the citizens of Paris took to the streets to demonstrate, demanding that the executive government take concrete actions to protect the safety of French waterways. Napoleon immediately ordered the army to enter a state of alert, suspend the demobilization of the army this year, and announced that the French navy and army will hold a large-scale landing and anti-landing exercise in Calais.
Calais is located on the east bank of the Strait of Dover, only a few dozen kilometers from the British coast. The French conduct military exercises in this position. If the British do not stare carefully, what if a navigation error occurs during the exercise, and the French fleet landing forces get the wrong direction and land in the UK?
Therefore, the British can only curse that the French are not a thing since ancient times, while canceling the large-scale support for Canada's operations plan, and at the same time ordering the British navy and army to enter a state of alert, ready to resist a possible French invasion.
But although the French helped in this way, the performance of the US Navy was not good enough.
First of all, the two super cruisers heading south did not immediately spot the British fleet. The British calculated time and estimated that the two super cruisers hired by the Americans might have gone south, and they left the coast of the United States and began searching and intercepting American merchant ships farther from the coastline.
This approach of the British will of course greatly reduce their own interception efficiency, but it also makes it difficult for the Americans to find them. "Free Trade" and "Common Market" ran along the coast of the United States, and even the hair of the British fleet was not found.
But on the other side, the US warships still in the Cabot Strait are in great danger.
The British "Indomitable" super cruiser was sent to Britain by the British urgently after news that the Americans had leased two super cruisers from France. So this ship was not in the North American squadron at all, and the Americans did not even know its existence.
Today, the French super cruiser has gone south, and the Cabot Strait is not wide. The British at both ends of the strait can easily see the entire US fleet with binoculars. They quickly concluded that the two French ships had left.
So in the morning of this day, when the guys from the American fleet were waiting bored and watching whales, their observation post noticed that ~EbookFREE.me~ was to the east of them, and there was a plume of smoke in the distance. .
For this plume of smoke, the Americans were a little nervous at first, because it was possible that the British North American squadron had returned. Without the presence of "Free Trade" and "Common Market", the American fleet could not beat the British North American squadron.
But the Americans were not in a panic, because their speed was faster than that of the British North American Squadron. The situation was really wrong and they had the initiative to withdraw from the battle.
What's more, if it is in other waters, most of the smoky ships are steam-powered ships, most likely warships. But in this sea area, there is another kind of ship that emits black smoke, and that is the whaling ship.
In this era, whaling ships do not have cold storage. In order to obtain more benefits every time they go to sea, they will cut off the whale fat directly on the ship and smelt it into whale oil. As for the other whales Most of them are thrown directly into the sea except for the baleen.
In order to smelt whale oil (otherwise the blubber will decay), this kind of ship has a large boiler that burns on fire to make whale oil. Therefore, the plume of smoke seen in this sea area is not necessarily a steamship, but may also be a whaling ship returning home. So at this time, the US Navy does not know what kind of opponent they will face.