Years after the birth of the United States, the Navy became part of the military branch of the new country. However, piracy was a major problem during the imperial age in the United States. In 1794, the legislative body imposes a law to strengthen the forces of the navy (USS Constitution Association). As a result, David Stodder and his co-builders, Josiah Fox and Joshua Humphreys, built one of the first ships called USS Constellation 1797, which gained recognition through barbaric battles and rival British rule. This battleship displayed the flag of the United States. States, representing fifteen States. Initially, the frigate was used for trade before Commodore Truxtun loaded her for the upcoming war. During the Quasi-War, the 1797 USS Constellation undertook its first battle mission to attack French pirates in the Caribbean Sea. Since then this ship was able to surrender to the frigate L'Insurgente in 1799. The ship La Vengeance challenged her in turn, so the American schooner shot down this ship in the year 1800. "The Yankee Racehorse" was the nickname of the Constellation. Unfortunately, strong currents damaged the Constellation on its way back to its headquarters in the shipyard. When the First Barbary War began in North Africa, this ship awoke to encounter enemies in the Mediterranean. She went to Derne to rescue US bureaucrats and marines from the Libyan blockade. Furthermore, the ship prepared for battle in the capital of Tunisia. Furthermore, he committed the Americans to fighting North African vandals in Gibraltar. Terminally damaged, the ironclad was anchored home to undergo an extended period of reconstruction by 1812. Suddenly, the War of 1812 forced the United States to arm the tro...... three years. Achieving its duties as final war, Americans were fighting with England and France in the Second Opium War against Chinese rebels. During the spring, Yankee Racehorse led the East India Squadron over China and rescued American veterans and diplomats and U.S.-owned possessions in 1841. Before being “commissioned” in Maryland, the battleship sailed eastward to Hawaii, preventing an imperialist threat from arriving. London. Overall, this 38-gun ship weighed one thousand two hundred and sixty-five tons. In 1853, this first US battleship was now transformed into a different ship which became another Constellation ship by 1854. In the twenty-first century, this schooner is now a tourist attraction reminiscent of what it did when the United States began to expand its territories through wars and mercantilism.