The War of 1812 began with a lot of enthusiasm for conquering Canada in response to a high-handed British Navy's impressment of American civilian sailors into their naval service. About the only naval success we had was the battle at Put-in-Bay, a small island on Lake Erie, and that was a just minor triumph. We ended up with Washington DC sacked and burned by the Brits; although when they tried to do the same thing to Baltimore, we Americans stood our ground. It was there that Francis Scott Key penned his "Star Spangled Banner" that later put to the music of an old beer drinking song and eventually began our national anthem. Our one major land victory was the Battle of New Orleans when Ol' Hickory's army--with the help of local citizenry, pirates, native Americans, and blacks both free and slave--held off the much larger and better equipped British forces. The irony was that the battle was fought a month after a peace treaty had been signed by both sides. Here, I have tried to portray an American cutter of the time as it patrols along the shores of Lake Erie. Unfortunately, the more historically accurate uniforms that I had intended to use caused repeated crashes due to insufficient memory. How I hate that phrase!!! Hope you like it. Thanks for comments and favs about previous postings. Jeremy CREDITS: Vue7 Pro Studio, Poser6. Ship: "Cutter with Sails" by Alain Gracia (Cornucopia3d). Figures: Poser4 lo-poly P4man (Curious Labs). Ship Wakes: SeaVue primitives (Renderosity, Cornucopia3d) and "Wakes" primitives by Waldemar Barkowski aka spacebones (ShareCG). Building: "1812 Blockhouse" by Lakota (Renderosity). Ecosystem: Created by me using Vue7's "Spring Birch" plant and various "Old Growth" and "Cut Forest" tree objects from the "Old Forest" collection by Modualz(RDNA). Water texture: Gill Brooks.