On June 22nd, 1807, the HMS Leopard stopped the USS Chesapeake due to supicision that the ship had British deserters abord. The Chesapeake's captain, Commodore James Barron, refused to allow any search parties aboard his ship, and tensions grew untill the Leopard unleashed a broadside into the unprepared Chesapeake. IOTL, this almost sparked an Anglo-American war. What if the United States navy viewed war with Britain as inevitable and began building more ships, espically in the Great Lakes? How would this affect the war of 1812? Or is this whole premise completely implausible?