What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: Lords of the LakeUser Review - ^ - GoodreadsI bought this on a visit to Portsmouth, Hampshire, a year or so after visiting Plattsburgh NY (close to the US-Canada border), in the Summer of 2002. I had called into the Town Hall, where, in ... Read full review Review: Lords of the Lake: The Naval War on Lake Ontario, 1812-1814User Review - Matt - GoodreadsI really want to give this book a 4.5 or 4.8. It is a fantastic book missing only a strong conclusion of why the campaigns on Lake Ontario were "failures" based on combat but successes based on each ... Read full review Contents
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