In Fiction
Canon from HMS Shannon (Province House (Nova Scotia))A fictionalized account of the battle appears in the novel The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian. It is discussed briefly, with reference to the court martial of Third Lieutenant William Sitgreaves Cox, in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers. This engagement also became the subject of a well-known British sea shanty, "The Chesapeke and the Shannon".
Reference is also made in the novel Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery, when the main characters spot the grave of an anonymous sailor who supposedly died in the battle.
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