Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815In Perilous Fight, Stephen Budiansky tells the rousing story of the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812, when an upstart American fleet fought off the legendary Royal Navy and established America as a world power for the first time. |
Contents
Honors Shoals | 55 |
A Defence Worthy of Republicans | 105 |
The Present War Unexpected Unnecessary and Ruinous | 113 |
Love of Fame Is a Noble Passion | 149 |
Walls of Wood | 187 |
You Shall Now Feel the Effects of War | 214 |
The Far Side of the World | 258 |
My Country I Fear Has Forgot | 286 |
Fortunes of | 313 |
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