page_title: Defense of the Cutter Eagle
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Defense of the Cutter Eagle / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: USCGC Eagle under full sail in 2013
context_page_description: The Defense of the Cutter Eagle is a battle on and around Long Island that took place from October 10 to 13, 1814, between the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and the United States' Revenue Marine. Early on in the engagement, the United States' only involved vessel, USRC Eagle, was beached near Negro Head. Despite the loss of their ship, her crew continued fighting the Royal Navy vessels from shore using cannon recovered from their wrecked vessel. Eagle's crew was ultimately able to repair and refloat her, but unsuccessful in their attempts to drive the British ships away. Once more she was beached, but after exhausting their ammunition over three days of fighting, the Eagle's crew was unable to prevent her from being towed off by the Royal Navy, which then sailed her back past the shoreline for a victory lap. Though there were no fatalities on either side in the battle, a cow grazing in the area died after being hit by a 32-pound round shot fired by one of the Royal Navy ships.
context_section_description: Defense of the Cutter Eagle is one panel in a larger mural depicting the Revenue Marine and Coast Guard's battles displayed inside Hamilton Hall at the United States Coast Guard Academy. It is one of two paintings commissioned by the Coast Guard of the battle, neither of which are considered accurate, the mural showing an unrealistic representation of the geography of Negro Head and the other work omitting the presence of the Connecticut soldiers.
  In 2014, during bicentennial observances of the War of 1812, the Hallockville Museum Farm in Riverhead, New York, organized a reenactment of the battle.
  As of 2019 USCGC Eagle (formerly the Kriegsmarine ship Horst Wessel), a Gorch Fock-class barque, perpetuates the name Eagle on the Coast Guard ship register.
  Three of the ships involved in the battle, Eagle as well as Narcissus and Dispatch, are among the six legendary vessels celebrated in the second verse of the Coast Guard march "Semper Paratus":
  Surveyor and Narcissus,
  
  The Eagle and Dispatch,
  
  The Hudson and the Tampa,
  
  These names are hard to match;
  
  From Barrow's shores to Paraguay,
  
  Great Lakes or Ocean's wave,
  
  The Coast Guard fights through storms and winds
  
  To punish or to save.
caption: The U.S. Coast Guard flagship USCGC Eagle perpetuates the Eagle name on the Coast Guard register.
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