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Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 by Stephen Budiansky

Much of the cause of the War of 1812 arose out of maritime disputes: Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights. “Perilous Fight” is an exhaustive study of America’s War with Britain on the high seas, 1812-1815. Although the most significant aspects of the N

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Black Redcoats: The Corps of Colonial Marines 1814-1816 by Matthew Taylor

“Black Redcoats” is a study of the hundreds of American Blacks, mostly run-away slaves, who served in the British Colonial Marines in the Southern theatres during the War of 1812. Drawn from plantations around Chesapeake Bay, the Georgia Sea Islands

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Historical Memoir of The War In West Florida And Louisiana in 1814-1815 by Arsene Lacarriere Latour

“Historical Memoir Of The War In West Florida And Louisiana in 1814-15” is a first-person narrative by Frenchman Arsene Lacarriere Latour, who served as chief engineer under Gen. Andrew Jackson throughout the Gulf campaign. Hie obtained his posit

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Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812, Edited by Kathryn E. Holland Braund

“Tohopeka; Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812” consists of twelve essays by multiple authors chronicling the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, the defeat of the Creek Indians that opened the Southeast to white settlement. Topics include casualti

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Don't Give Up The Ship: Myths of the War of 1812 by Donald R. Hickey

War History members seeking a deeper understanding of the War of 1812 are well advised to look to “Don’t Give Up The Ship”. Unlike histories arranged chronologically or limited to a particular individual or events, this one is arranged into six t

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A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South by Peter Cozzens

In the minds of many War History Network readers, Indian Wars occurred out west and to the extent that they think of it at all, the War of 1812 occurred in Washington, Fort McHenry and New Orleans. “A Brutal Reckoning” tells of another related war

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The Reader's Corner: Talking About Books and Book Reviews

Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 by Stephen Budiansky

Black Redcoats: The Corps of Colonial Marines 1814-1816 by Matthew Taylor

Historical Memoir of The War In West Florida And Louisiana in 1814-1815 by Arsene Lacarriere Latour

Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812, Edited by Kathryn E. Holland Braund

Don't Give Up The Ship: Myths of the War of 1812 by Donald R. Hickey

A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South by Peter Cozzens

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