Naval Occurrences of the War of 1812: A Full and Correct Account of the Naval War between Great Britain and The United States of America, 1812-1815 de James, William - 2004

US Naval Institute Press, 2004. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Naval Institute Press. 408 pages. Clean hardback with a dust jacket. Naval Occurrences of the War of 1812: A Full and Correct Account of the Naval War between Great Britain and The United States of America, 1812-1815 . Very Good. Hardcover. 2004.

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Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.: Naval Inst Pr, 2004. New book, 408 pages, slight shelf wear to cover. This contraversial book was first published in 1817 in response to the exaggerated and false accounts then circulating in America and Britain regarding the apparent recent successes of the United States Navy over the Royal Navy in supposedly equal combats. William James applied himself to assembling the facts and proved that, despite the 'powder puff' history of American writers - 'no American ship of war has, after all, captured a British ship of war, of the same force; but that the reverse has occured, and might have occured again, and again, had the Americans been willing to fight, as they are still to boast.' The distinguished naval historian Andrew Lambert here presents this key text whole with a new introduction, while the appendices, which contain a wealth of correspondence and eyewitness accounts of the many famous actions of the ware, are reproduced in full. Hard Cover. As… Leer más

Naval Institute Press, 2004-10-15. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!