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The sinking of HMS Java was a naval action fought in the Atlantic off the coast of Brazil on December 29, 1812 between the USS ''Constitution'' and the British frigate HMS ''Java''. The Java was defeated, suffering damage so severe that she was burned and sunk. There is a fictional, but well-researched ansd historically accurate, account of this incident in Patrick O'Brian's novel The Fortune of War (1979). Java
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