You also might remind the BBC Brits that THE GREATEST MILITARY ALLIANCE the world has ever known, the United States & Great Britain, began in the water off Dauphin Island on February 13, 1815, when Captain Sterling of the HMS Brazen arrived at the anchorage of the British fleet off of Dauphin Island with news that a treaty of peace had been signed by the two countries on December 24th in Ghent.