The fallout from the "Chesapeake–Leopard" affair features prominently in two novels of the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. It is first mentioned in the fifth novel, "Desolation Island", when the fictional Captain Jack Aubrey is given command of "Leopard" (which he privately refers to as the "horrible old "Leopard"") a few years after the incident. Though the United States and Great Britain are at peace at the time and neither he nor any member of his crew had anything to do with the affair, he is met with mistrust and hostility from American naval personnel due to their negative association with the ship. The subsequent capture of "Chesapeake" during the War of 1812 features prominently in the sixth Aubrey–Maturin novel, "The Fortune of War," as Aubrey is aboard during the engagement.