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As the Bicentennial of the Warfare of 1812 is seen in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, one of its most important artifacts sits relatively intact and anonymous in Great britain. The USS Chesapeake was launched in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1799, and captured by the English in another of the most storied naval fights of the Warfare of 1812. Though broken up in Portsmouth, Great britain, in 1819, she endures more than any of the other American warships of her day, like the USS Constitution. Since 1820, the uncut and unaltered timbers of the Chesapeake have survived as the structure of the flour mill beside the Meon River in Wickham, Hampshire Region, UK. If the Chesapeake Mill became obsolete and forgotten in the 1970s, the dispatch was in danger of being broken up once more. Then, at the start of the 21st hundred years, the makes of historical preservation returned her alive in another form.
