The War of 1812

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-09-28
Publisher(s): Cooper Square Press
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Summary

Unsurpassed work which illuminates the unpopular, blunder-filled War of 1812.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Invasion of Canada
1(12)
Hull's Surrender
13(11)
The Niagara Campaign
24(13)
Naval Battles
37(10)
The River Raisin
47(11)
Proctor and Perry
58(12)
The Battle of the Thames
70(7)
Dearborn's Campaign
77(14)
Wilkinson's Campaign
91(15)
Mobile and Fort Mims
106(11)
Campaigns Among the Creeks
117(12)
The Blockade
129(11)
``Chesapeake'' and ``Argus''
140(10)
Privateering
150(13)
Monroe and Armstrong
163(6)
Chippawa and Lundy's Lane
169(19)
Fort Erie
188(13)
Plattsburg
201(14)
Bladensburg
215(13)
Baltimore
228(10)
Sloops of War and Privateers
238(16)
Exhaustion
254(11)
Congress and the Army
265(10)
The Hartford Convention
275(10)
New Orleans in Danger
285(17)
The Artillery Battle
302(13)
The Battle of New Orleans
315(9)
The Meeting at Ghent
324(10)
The Treaty of Ghent
334(12)
The Close of Hostilities
346(11)
Observations on the American Character
357(6)
Index 363

Excerpts

For civil affairs Americans were more or less trained; but they had ignored war, and had shown no capacity in their treatment of military matters. Their little army was not well organized or equipped; its civil administration was more imperfect than its military, and its military condition could hardly have been worse.

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