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George C. Daughan, 1812: The Navy’s War (Basic Books, 2011). David Hanna, Knights of the Sea: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812 (New American Library/Caliber ...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The Annapolis War of 1812 200th anniversary commemorative walking tour opened July 6 with a ribbon cutting ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy. U.S. Naval Academy Superintendent ...
Naval History Magazine, August 2008 The War of 1812 was a conflict between two very different naval powers, a pattern that is far more common in naval history than tends to be appreciated.
The primitive seven-barrel machine gun dates to the War of 1812 and was prized by U.S. naval commanders, who hoped to position such weapons in ships’ rigging to strafe opponents’ decks and ...
Had Oliver Wendell Holmes not felt the patriotic pride that led to his writing of this inspiring poem, the USS Constitution ...
The naval Battle of Lake Champlain — and the concurrent land battle at Plattsburgh — transcended tactical brilliance. The two battles altered the course of the War of 1812, forestalled American ...
The War of 1812 is a mindbender among naval wars. Seldom does a society mistake defeat for victory and codify the loser ...
Painting of the marine battle in the War of 1812 featuring the USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, and the British ship, HMS Guerrière, with its masts broken. Artist Thomas Chambers, 1845.
In Massachusetts, and especially its District of Maine, the War of 1812 was “a disorderly discourse,” writes Smith. Its politics “devolved into arguments, lawsuits, riots, fistfights ...
Scoundrels, smugglers and their ilk helped to make Maine, according to a new history of the War of 1812.
In 1882, Roosevelt published “The Naval War of 1812,” the book that brought him to prominence. In the acknowledgments, Roosevelt thanked Bulloch for his “advice and sympathy.” ...