Short killed— Stormers repulsed— Proctor retires— Barclay at Maiden— Efforts to equip squadron— No men nor material —The two 24's— Calibre and character of guns in the squadrons respectively 202 ...
294 “within forty-eight hours”: Cockburn to Cochrane, July 17, 1814, in Crawford, ed., Naval War of 1812, 3:137–39; Irving Brant, James Madison, vol. 6: Commander in Chief, 1812–1836 (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1961), 285; Shomette, ...
At the outbreak of the War of 1812, AmericaÕs prospects looked dismal. It was clear that the primary battlefield would be the open oceanÑbut AmericaÕs war fleet, only twenty ships...
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As military campaigns go, the War of 1812 was a disaster. By the time it ended in 1815, Washington, D.C., had been burned to the ground, the national debt had...
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