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The climactic shaping of "the land of the free" during the hazardous events of 1814 in Washington, Baltimore, and London.

Explains the War of 1812, its causes and its aftermath.

In the second and final war of independence, Madison leads an unprepared nation into a struggle that will establish the United States as a major world power and stake its claim to the entire continent. Before the outcome is decided, the war will have engulfed land and sea, with a disastrous U.S. defeat at Detroit and epic naval campaigns on the Great Lakes. After the Americans sack Toronto, the British retaliate by burning the White House and the...

Now a virtually forgotten conflict, the war produced Perry's great victory at Lake Erie, the bombardment of Fort McHenry and the Star spangled banner, Jackson's victory at New Orleans, and the frigate battles, and a few quotes.

Battles, issues, personalities, and political background of our second war with England.

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.

"Here are the stories of commanding generals such as America's Henry "Granny" Dearborn, double-dealing James Wilkinson, and feisty Andrew Jackson, as well as Great Britain's gallant Sir Isaac Brock, overly cautious Sir George Prevost, and Rear Admiral George Cockburn, the man who put the torch to Washington. Here too are those inadvertently caught up in the war, from heroine farm wife Laura Secord, whom some call Canada's Paul Revere, to country doctor...

Describes the Canadian volunteers in the War of 1812 who successfully defended their homes and towns from skilled Americans.