High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second USS Saratoga, named for the Battle of Saratoga, was a corvette built on Lake Champlain for service in the War of 1812. Saratoga was laid down on 7 March 1814, launched on 11 April 1814 and she was christened on the day that Napoleon abdicated. She was a Corvette weighing 734 tons, 143' long with a beam of 36'6" and a depth of hold 12'6". She had a complement of 212 with an armament of eight long 24-pounders, six 42-pounder carronades and twelve 32-pounder carronades. The Saratoga began her service on Lake Champlain as England was turning her attention and resources from the European continent to North America. British strategy envisaged a series of amphibious raids along the American coast as a diversion to cover a lethal thrust south from Canada down the strategic and already historic Lake Champlain-Hudson River corridor.

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