THE NAVAL WAR OF 1812
Written by Robert Gardiner
Published by Chatham Publishing
in 1998
ISBN: 1861760639
THE NAVAL WAR OF 1812
Written by Robert Gardiner.
Stock no. 1829713
1st.
1998.
Hardback.
Large format.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Chatham Pictorial Histories Series. This volume is chronologically structured by campaign and battle with introductory essays and thematic text boxes by well-known authorities. Large format. Turquoise cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 192 pages including index. ISBN: 1861760639. A lovely copy!
Front cover
Contents
- PREFACE
- SOURCES
- INTRODUCTION
- The Slide into War
- PART I: WAR ON THE HIGH SEAS
- The US Navy in 1812
- Lucky escapes
- First blood
- Constitution versus Guerriere
- Frolic versus Wasp
- United States versus Macedonia
- Constitution versus Java
- Hornet
- Shannon versus Chesapeake
- Brigs at war, 1813
- American privateers
- War as business: privateers in action
- Irwin Bevan's War of 1812
- Privateers v small cruisers
- The destruction of American trade
- Ships of the Royal Navy: schooners
- Cruise of the Essex
- Sloops of war - the new generation
- Ships of the Royal Navy: brig sloops
- Warrington and the Peacock
- Constitution's last victory
- PART II: WAR ON THE GREAT LAKES
- Lake Ontario, 1813
- British shipbuilding on the Lakes
- Perry on Lake Erie
- The shipbuilders' war and the attack on Oswego
- Ships-in-frame: the fir frigates
- The Battle of Plattsburgh, 11 September 1814
- American shipbuilding on the Lakes
- Mackinac and the struggle for the Upper Lakes
- PART III: THE WAR ON THE COASTS
- Ships of the Royal Navy: the 80 gun ship
- The blockade
- Raiding in the Chesapeake in 1813
- Burning Washington
- Gordon's diversion on the Potomac
- Steam, torpedoes and rockets
- Baltimore reprieved
- Ships of the Royal Navy: big frigates
- Capture of the President
- The occupation of Maine
- The southern theatre
- The New Orleans campaign
- Prisoners of War
- POSTSCRIPT: 1815 THE HUNDRED DAYS
- NOTES ON ARTIES
- INDEX