In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the lifeblood of British defence. War polarised America. The south and west wanted land, the north wanted peace and trade. But America had to choose between the oceans and the continent. Within weeks the land invasion had stalled, but American warships and privateers did rather better, and astonished the world by besting the Royal Navy in a series of battles. Then in three titanic single ship actions the challenge was decisively met. British frigates closed with the Chesapeake, the Essex and the President, flagship of American naval ambition. Both sides found new heroes but none could equal Captain Philip Broke, champion of history's greatest frigate battle, when HMS Shannon captured the USS Chesapeake in thirteen blood-soaked minutes. Broke's victory secured British control of the Atlantic, and within a year Washington, D.C. had been taken and burnt by British troops. Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, brings all his mastery of the subject and narrative brilliance to throw new light on a war which until now has been much mythologised, little understood.

Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812

History

Andrew D. Lambert

Military

Faber&Faber

Warship: No. 39

Conway Maritime P

Warship: No. 40

Conway Maritime Press Ltd.

1987. Conway Maritime Press, Ltd., London., 192 pages. 12 oz. (11 x 8.5 x .25 inches Paperback) . Title: Warship Volume 43, July 1987 (The Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Design, Development and Service History of the World?s Fighting Ships) by Andrew Lambert (Editor). ISBN# 0851774377. Contents: The Iowa Class Battleships; Toulon 1942: The End of the French Fleet; The Leopard-Chesapeake Incident 1807. Category: Toys & HobbiesModel Shipbuilding

Warship: 43

Conway Maritime Press, Ltd., London

This detailed study of British strategy during the Crimean War, from the Eastern crisis of March 1853 to the Treaty of Paris in May 1856, adopts a maritime perspective. It uses fresh archive material to focus on the fact that the Crimean invasion was solely in order to destroy the Russian fleet and base, not to capture territory. The pivotal role of the British Navy is examined, as well as the manner in which the British fleet, threatening St Petersburg in 1855, forced Russia to accept the allied terms. The text will be of interest to students and historians of strategy, diplomacy and 19th-century war and politics.

War Correspondents: The Crimean War

Europe

Bramley Books

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