The first USS ''Conquest'' was a

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in the

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during the

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. ''Conquest'', formerly the merchant ship ''Genesee Packet'', was purchased 8 October 1812 at

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, for service on

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under Commodore

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. Commanded by Lieutenant J. D. Elliott, ''Conquest'' cruised constantly on Lake Ontario during the

, taking part in the attacks on

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on 9 December 1812; York (now

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) on 27 April 1813; and Fort George on 27 May 1813. She joined in the engagements with the British squadron of 7 to 11 August, 11 and 28 September 1813. She was laid up at

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, at the end of the war and sold there in May 1815.

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