The Naval War of 1812: Or, The History of the United States Navy During the Last War with Great Britain |
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User Review - gmicksmith - LibraryThingImpressive in its subtlety and balanced reflection on competing accounts T.R. is nonetheless positively giddy in his muscular and heroic narrative of American naval success in the war. Cf. The ... Read full review
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This book is a classic. It's importance probably has more to do with the author then with the scholarship.
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| Title | The Naval War of 1812: Or, The History of the United States Navy During the Last War with Great Britain Homeward Bound Edition Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt |
| Author | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's sons, 1883 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | May 5, 2009 |
| Length | 541 pages |
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