Amongst
My Best Men: African Americans and the War of 1812
by Gerard T. Altoff, et al
(Paperback)
The
Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory
by Robert Vincent Remini
The United States and Britain had already negotiated an end to the
War of 1812 when their troops met on the Plains of Chalmette near New Orleans
in 1815. Word of the peace had not yet reached that far west, so a group
of professional British soldiers clashed with a rag-tag band of about 4,000
"frontiersmen, militiamen, regular soldiers, free men of color, Indians,
pirates, and townspeople" along the banks of the Mississippi River. These
were "citizen-soldiers" in the finest sense, writes Robert V. Remini, the
acclaimed biographer of Andrew Jackson, and they were commanded by a man
whose military experience had commenced only two years earlier. Yet the
battle "was one of the great turning points in American history" because
it "produced a President and an enduring belief in the military ability
of free people to protect and preserve their society and their way of life."
Remini may oversell the battle's importance, but not by much. His enthusiasm
is the mark of a historian in love with his subject. The Battle of New
Orleans (and the War of 1812 in general) has tended to suffer more from
neglect than from too much attention. This concise book, full of workmanlike
prose, is a fine introduction to what Remini calls "America's first military
victory" (he downplays Saratoga and Yorktown as "simply surrenders, nothing
more"). Military history buffs won't want to miss it. --John J. Miller
- Amazon.com
Paperback: 240 pages
Penguin USA
(Paper); ISBN: 0141001798; (May 2001) |
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Captain
Caution
by Kenneth Lewis Roberts
(Paperback - May 1999)
Captain
Blakeley and the Wasp: The Cruise of 1814
by Stephen W. H. Duffy
Hardcover from United States Naval Inst.
Book Published: October, 2000
Chalmette
: The Battle for New Orleans and How the British Nearly Stole the Louisiana
Territory
by Charles Patton
(Paperback)
The
Dawn's Early Light (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
by Walter Lord
Paperback: 400 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.09 x
8.49 x 5.48
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; Reprint edition (April
1994)
ISBN: 0801848644
The
Fatal Cruise of the Argus: Two Captains in the War of 1812
by Ira Dye
Hardcover from United States Naval Inst.
Book Published: December, 1994
Fighting
Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and its Aftermath
by Barry M. Gough
Book Description: Canadian Barry Gough's new work makes an important
and long-awaited contribution to our understanding of the struggle for
domination in the Upper Great Lakes and the American heartland during the
War of 1812. A critical time for both the old northwest and the peoples
who lived along the U.S.-Canadian border, it was also a time when the territories
that became Wisconsin and Minnesota were formed, the fur trade was established,
and the Indian nations attempted to preserve both their homeland and their
independence. It is a unique study in that it goes far beyond the Battle
of Lake Erie, where traditional historical accounts end, adding new chapters
to the history of Detroit and Michilimackinac.
This comprehensive, chronological account exposes the reader not only
to the naval and territorial consequences of the era but also to the plight
along the way. It is the story of shipbuilding, of the limits of sea power,
and of the men and women who succeeded in traversing unknown water and
land. The author details such events as Commodore Arthur Sinclair's disastrous
U.S. naval expedition to Lake Huron and Georgian Bay in 1814 and describes
how British forces captured unsuspecting U.S. naval schooners. Supplemented
with excellent maps and illustrations, the text also provides information
about hydrographic surveying and the search for useful naval bases. This
book will appeal to everyone interested in the age of fighting sail, Native
American history, and early American naval pursuits.
Hardcover: 215 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.05 x
9.44 x 6.18
Publisher: Naval Institute Press; (June 18, 2002)
ISBN: 1557503141
The
Final Invasion : Plattsburgh, the War of 1812's Most Decisive Battle
by David G. Fitz-Enz, et al
Examines the battle at Plattsburgh, which occurred when the British
were attempting to reconquer the young United States by moving south from
Canada through Lake Champlain in an attempt to cut off Maine from the rest
of the country.
Hardcover - 352 pages 1St. coope edition (September 2001)
Cooper Square Pub; ISBN: 0815411391
Historical
Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15: With an Atlas
by Arsene Lacarriere Latour, Gene A. Smith, Historic New Orleans Collection,
Araenelacarrier LaTour
Hardcover from University Press of Florida
Book Published: June, 1999
Special Order
Joshua
Barney: Hero of the Revolution and 1812 (Library of Naval Biography)
by Louis Arthur Norton
Hardcover from United States Naval Inst.
Book Published: November, 2000
Lords
of the Lake : The Naval War on Lake Ontario, 1812-1814
by Robert Malcomson
Based almost exclusively on primary sources and impeccable in its scholarship,
this heavily illustrated book is the first full-length study of the battle
during the War of 1812. The absorbing narrative features not only sea battles
and raids, but shipwrecks, chases, and blockades, as well as the treacheries
of egotists and the bravery of heroes. The Publisher
Hardcover - 432 pages (March 1999)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557505322
The
Lively Lady
by Kenneth Lewis Roberts
(Paperback - September 1997)
The
Naval War of 1812
by Theodore Roosevelt
Published when Theodore Roosevelt was only twenty-three years old,
The Naval War of 1812 was immediately hailed as a literary and scholarly
triumph, and it is still considered the definitive book on the subject.
It caused considerable controversy for its bold refutation of earlier accounts
of the war, but its brilliant analysis and balanced tone left critics floundering,
changed the course of U.S. military history by renewing interest in our
obsolete forces, and set the young author and political hopeful on a path
to greatness. Roosevelt's inimitable style and robust narrative make The
Naval War of 1812 enthralling, illuminating, and utterly essential to every
armchair historian.
Paperback - 560 pages Reprint edition (May 1999)
Modern Library; ISBN: 0375754199 |
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Niagara
1814: America Invades Canada
by Richard V. Barbuto
(Hardcover)
A
Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813
(Bluejacket Paperback Series)
by David Curtis Skaggs, et al
Book Description: The Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813
is considered by many to be the most important naval confrontation of the
War of 1812. Made famous by the American fleet commander Oliver Hazard
Perry's comment, "We have met the enemy and they are ours," the battle
marked the U.S. Navy's first successful fleet action and was one of the
rare occasions when the Royal Navy surrendered an entire squadron. This
book draws on British, Canadian, and American documents to offer a totally
impartial analysis of all sides of the struggle to control the lake. New
diagrams of the battle are included that reflect the authors' modification
of traditional positions of various vessels. The book also evaluates the
strategic background and tactical conduct of the British and the Americans
and the command leadership exercised by Perry and his British opponent,
Commander Robert H. Barclay. Not since James Fenimore Cooper's 1843 book
on the subject has the battle been examined in such detail, and not since
Alfred Thayer Mahan's 1905 study of the war has there been such a significant
reinterpretation of the engagement. First published in hardcover in 1997,
the book is the winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's
John Lyman Book Award.
Paperback - 264 pages (May 15, 2000)
Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 1557508925 |
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Splintering
the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815
by Wade G. Dudley
Hardcover from United States Naval Inst.
Book Published: December, 2002
Struggle
for the Gulf Borderlands: The Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans,
1812-1815
by Frank Lawrence, Jr. Owsley
Paperback from Univ of Alabama Pr (Txt)
Book Published: October, 2000
The
USS Constitution's Finest Fight, 1815: The Journal of Acting Chaplain Assheton
Humphreys, US Navy
by Asheton Y. Humphreys, Tyrone G. Martin
Hardcover from Nautical & Aviation Pub Co of Amer
Book Published: 15 November, 2000
Where
Right and Glory Lead! The Battle of Lundy's Lane, 1814
by Donald E. Graves
(Paperback - September 2000)
The
War of 1812
by Victor Suthren
(Hardcover - February 2001)
The Eagle: An American Brig on Lake Champlain During the War of 1812
by Kevin James Crisman
Hardcover from New England Press
Book Published: December, 1987
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The Cruise of the Essex; An Incident from the War of 1812.
by Irving. Werstein
Hardcover from MacRae Smith Co
Book Published: June, 1969
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Books
The Naval Chronicle: the Contemporary Record of the Royal Navy at
War: 1810-1815, the Defeat of Napoleon and the American War of 1812 and
Complete Index
by Nicholas Tracy
Paperback from Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd
Book Published: 27 August, 1999
Availability: Out of Stock
The Battle for Baltimore: 1814
by Joseph A. Whitehorne, Carleton Jones, Joseph W. A. Whitehorne
Hardcover from Nautical & Aviation Pub Co of Amer
Book Published: April, 1997
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The Last Battle
by Leonard Patrick O'Connor Wibberley
Hardcover from Farrar Straus & Giroux (Juv)
Book Published: March, 1976
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The Naval War of 1812 (Chatham Pictorial Histories)
by Robert Gardiner (Editor), National Maritime Museum
This volume illustrates all naval facets of the War of 1812 with contemporary
sources from the British Maritime Museum and the archives of North America.
It also includes a wealth of eyewitness material from diaries, journals,
and sketchbooks of participants. Amazon.com
Hardcover (March 1999)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 155750654X
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