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  2. The Naval War of 1812 - Wikipedia

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    The Naval War of 1812 is Theodore Roosevelt's first book, published in 1882. It covers the naval battles and technology used during the War of 1812.It is considered a seminal work in its field, and had a massive impact on the formation of the modern American Navy.

  3. William James (naval historian) - Wikipedia

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    Theodore Roosevelt, as a young Harvard University undergraduate in 1876–77, began work on a response from the American perspective. Published in 1882 as The Naval War of 1812, the book took James to task for what Roosevelt perceived as glaring mistakes and outright misrepresentations of fact based on malicious anti-American bias and shabby research, despite James's painstaking research and ...

  4. Battle of Lake Borgne - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Lake Borgne was a coastal engagement between the Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy in the American South theatre of the War of 1812. It occurred on December 14, 1814 on Lake Borgne. The British victory allowed them to disembark their troops unhindered nine days later [4] and to launch an offensive upon New Orleans on land. [5]

  5. Historiography of the War of 1812 - Wikipedia

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    The War of 1812. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-22029-1. Daughan, George C. (2011). 1812: The Navy's War. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02046-1. "The Defense and Burning of Washington in 1814: Naval Documents of the War of 1812". U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. Navy Department Library. 16 October 2007.

  6. Little Belt affair - Wikipedia

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    The Little Belt affair was a naval battle on the night of 16 May 1811. It involved the United States frigate USS President and the British sixth-rate HMS Little Belt, a sloop-of-war, which had originally been the Danish ship Lillebælt, before being captured by the British in the 1807 Battle of Copenhagen.

  7. War of 1812 - Wikipedia

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    The United States Navy's smaller ship-sloops had also won several victories over Royal Navy sloops-of-war, again of smaller armament. The American sloops Hornet , Wasp (1807) , Peacock , Wasp (1813) and Frolic were all ship -rigged while the British Cruizer -class sloops that they encountered were brig-rigged, which gave the Americans a ...

  8. Capture of USS Chesapeake - Wikipedia

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    The Naval War of 1812 or The History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. OCLC 133902576. Shea, Iris V.; Watts, Heather (2005). Deadman's: Melville Island & Its Burial Ground. Tantallon Nova Scotia: Glen Margaret Publishers. ISBN 978-0-393-05847-5. Toll, Ian (2006).

  9. Chesapeake–Leopard affair - Wikipedia

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    Chesapeake herself was captured during the War of 1812, when on June 1, 1813, after a series of naval engagements with the Royal Navy, the British frigate HMS Shannon captured Chesapeake in a single-ship action near Boston. The Royal Navy commissioned Chesapeake, but put her up for sale at Portsmouth in July 1819. [24]