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Utmost gallantry : the U.S. and Royal Navies at sea in the War of 1812 /
Focusing on the oceanic war rather than the war in the Great Lakes, this study charts the War of 1812 from the perspectives of the two opposing navies at sea--one of the largest fleets in the world and a small, upstart navy just three decades old. While American naval leadership searched for a means...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Annapolis, Md. :
Naval Institute Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. "Every Appearance of Hastening the Crisis": The Royal Navy, the United States Navy, and the Background to War; 2. "'A Little Bit of a Dust' With an English Frigate": The Opening Naval Campaign, June to September 1812; 3. "It Is a Thing I Could Not Have Expected": The Second Round, September 1812-March 1813; 4. "If We Could Take One or Two of These D--d Frigates": Reassessment of Britain's Naval Objectives, 1812-13; 5. "Cast Away ... or Taken": American Naval Failure and Reassessment, June 1812-Early 1813.
- 6. "Creating a Powerful Diversion": Secretary Jones and the Naval Campaign of 18137. "A Glorious Retrieval of Our Naval Reputation": The Turning Point, 1 June 1813; 8. "More Than Ordinary Risk": United States Frigates, Winter 1813-14; 9. "Pursuing My Own Course": The Essex in the Pacific, 1813-14; 10. "Some Hard Knocks": Reassessment--The United States, September 1813-March 1814; 11. "Into Abler Hands": Britain Turns to New Leadership, 1814; 12. "Repulsed in Every Attempt": The Culmination of the Jones' Small Cruiser Strategy, mid-1814.
- 13. "The Current Demands of the Service": An Appraisal of British Naval Operations, 1813-14Epilogue. "A Wreath of Laurels ... a Crown of Thorns": The Last Naval Campaign, 1815; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.