Chesapeake Bay Flotilla

Chesapeake campaign
	Part of War of 1812
Date	April, 1814 - February 15, 1815
Location	Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, Washington D.C., Baltimore
Result	American strategic victory
Belligerents
United States; U.S. Navy; U.S. Army; Maryland Militia; Virginia Militia; District of Columbia Militia; Pennsylvania Militia	British Empire; Royal Navy; British Army; Royal Marines; Colonial Marines
Commanders and leaders
Joshua Barney	Sir George Cockburn; Sir John Warren; Alexander Cochrane; Robert Ross
Strength
4,370 sailors; 700 marines; Army regulars; militia Ships: ; Seven 75-foot (23 m) barges; Six 50-foot (15 m) barges; Two gunboats; One row-galley; One lookout boat and his flagship; One 49-foot (15 m) sloop-rigged; One self-propelled floating battery USS Scorpion, mounting two long guns and two carronades	Large:; sailors; marines; Army regulars 96 Ships: ; 11 ships of the line; 34 frigates; 52 other vessels
Casualties and losses
Artillery Scuttling and burning of Flotilla vessels	minimal

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.