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The war in Europe against the French Empire under Napoleon ensured that the British did not consider the War of 1812 against the United States as more than a sideshow. [283] Britain's blockade of French trade had worked and the Royal Navy was the world's dominant nautical power (and remained so for another century).
The Incredible War of 1812: A Military History. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965. Lambert, Andrew The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812 (Faber and Faber, 2012) ISBN 0-571-27319-X; Lossing, Benson J. Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812. New York: Harper, 1868. 1084 pp.
Cover of the 1816 edition of The Late War between the United States and Great Britain. The Late War between the United States and Great Britain is an educational text written by Gilbert J. Hunt and published in New York in 1816. The Late War is an account of the War of 1812 written in the style of the King James Bible. [1]
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To their right was Major Plauchés' Battalion of Free Men of Color, and to their left was the 44th Infantry Regiment, with a strength of 350 soldiers, [8] or 240. [ 7 ] [ 9 ] During the battle, Savary's unit made an unauthorized attack, reaching the British lines before returning to their own line.
For the United States, the Creek War was an important side conflict to increase their control in the South at the expense of Native American factions allied with and supplied by the British, while the Hartford Convention of the Federalist Party (December 1814 – January 1815) played a significant role in voicing strong opposition to the U.S ...
The War of 1812. Da Capo Press, in arrangement with University of Florida Press, 1972. p. 496. ISBN 0-306-80429-8. [permanent dead link ] Paine, Ralph Delahaye (1920) [1920]. The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1920. pp. 235. Roosevelt, Theodore (1883). The Naval War of 1812.