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Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Describes the origins and early history of the American Navy, discussing the debates by the founding fathers over the need for a permanent military, the decision to construct six heavy frigates, the campaign against Tripoli, and the War of 1812.
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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1920
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: "The American people of today, weighed in the balances of the greatest armed conflict of all time and found not wanting, can afford to survey, in a spirit of candid scrutiny and without reviving an ancient grudge, that turbulent episode in the welding of their nation which is called the War of 1812. In spite of defeats and disappointments this war was, in the large, enduring sense, a victory. It was in this renewed defiance of England that...
Author
Series
Georgia trilogy (Eugenia Price) volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
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Description
The story of Anne Couper, daughter of a wealthy Georgia planter, and her love for a British lieutenant during the War of 1812.
Author
Series
American story 1800-1860 volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
A novel on the War of 1812 between the United States and England. Providing the big picture are President Madison, General Jackson and their wives, while everyday action is seen through the eyes of Winfield Scott, a young soldier, and Sally McQuirk, a war correspondent. By the author of Dream West.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America. In a world of double identities, slippery allegiances, and porous borders, the leaders of the American Republic and the British Empire struggled to control their own diverse peoples. Taylor's vivid narrative of an often brutal, sometimes farcical, war reveals much about the tangled origins of the United States and Canada.
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Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Ashore between cruises, Captain Jack Aubrey is persuaded to sink some money into an investment scheme. Soon this innocent decision enmeshes him in various criminal and even treasonous enterprises, which threaten to destroy his entire career.
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Jon Latimer offers an authoriative and compelling account that places the conflict in its strategic context within the Napoleonic wars. The British viewed the War of 1812 as an ill-fated attempt by the young American republic to annex Canada. For British Canada, populated by many loyalists who had fled the American Revolution, this was a war of survival." From the...
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Series
Nathaniel Drinkwater sea stories volume 11
Publisher
Sheridan House
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Author
Series
Heirs of Acadia volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The Solitary Envoy begins the Heirs of Acadia series of historical novels set in the early days of the American Republic. Erica Langston's comfortable life in Georgetown is threatened when the British invade. Soon she must begin a journey that will change her life forever.
13) Yankee mission
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Series
Kydd novels volume 25
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"1812. Off the coast of Brazil, HMS Java, a proud British 38-gun frigate, is captured in battle by the American USS Constitution--signaling across the world's oceans a challenge to Britain's naval premiership that cannot be ignored. Back in England, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is enjoying a moment of normal life with his wife and his newborn son. With his Thunderer in dock receiving some well-earned repairs he is, momentarily, without a command. It's...
14) Mutiny
Series
Publisher
Platinum, a subsidiary of Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
During the War of 1812, the United States, in need of gold, arranges with a French group to lend the government $10 million in bullion. To bring the gold here, an American ship must break through the British blockade. A young captain accepts the dangerous assignment and after several narrow escapes, the ship finally reaches France. No sooner is the gold aboard the American ship, when the crew mutinies and sets the captain adrift, giving him one chance...
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Series
Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
In 1812, Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner mark the return of Nathaniel's daughter Hannah, while her half-brother Daniel joins the militia and his twin, Lily, falls in love with a dark and dangerous stranger.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A narrative of the War of 1812 links it to the War of Independence and American beliefs about Manifest Destiny, documenting key battles while evaluating the contributions of such figures as Thomas Jefferson, Dolley Madison, and Davy Crockett.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Drawn from new sources, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents a gripping narrative that recreates the events that inspired hundreds of slaves to pressure British admirals into becoming liberators by using their intimate knowledge of the countryside to transform the war.
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Series
Language
English
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At the opening of the War of 1812, the British control the most powerful navy on earth, and Americans are again victims of piracy. Bliven Putnam, late of the Battle of Tripoli, is dispatched to Charleston to outfit and take command of a new 20-gun brig, the USS Tempest. Later, aboard the Constitution, he sails into the furious early fighting of the war. Prowling the South Atlantic in the Tempest, Bliven takes prizes and disrupts British merchant shipping,...