 Members of the Corps served alongside their shipborne Royal Marine counterparts from the Cockburn Chesapeake squadron ( HM Ships Albion , Dragon , Loire , Jasseur and the schooner HMS St Lawrence ) , participating in a series of raids . After the British failed to destroy the American Chesapeake Bay Flotilla at the Battle of St. Jerome Creek , they conducted coastal raids on the towns of Calverton , Huntingtown , Prince Frederick , Benedict and Lower Marlborough . On 15 June 1814 , a force of 30 Colonial Marines accompanied 180 Royal Marines in 12 boats in a raid on Benedict . Nine days later , on 24 June , a force of 50 Colonial and 180 Royal Marines attacked an artillery battery at Chesconessex Creek ( although this failed to prevent the escape of the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla , which left St. Leonard 's Creek two days later ) . 
