Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay"For nearly two years during the War of 1812, the British treated the Chesapeake Bay as their private lake. But in 1814, as attention moved from the northern frontier to the mid-Atlantic region, the Americans fought back and drove the invaders from the bay. Christopher T. George traces the abuses of the inhabitants of the Chesapeake Bay by Royal Navy raiding parties under arrogant Rear Admiral George Cockburn. Cockburn's burning and pillaging of bay communities preceded the burning of our nation's capital, Washington, D.C., on August 24-25, 1814, by Major General Robert Ross. Cockburn persuaded Ross that the Americans could not stand up to Lord Wellington's Peninsular War veterans. But he miscalculated when it came to attacking Baltimore, where citizen soldiers, strongly led by Revolutionary War veterans Generals Samuel Smith and John Stricker, and backed by U.S. Navy regulars, held the British at bay, killing Ross and reclaiming American pride."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... fleet : The sight was ... as grand and imposing as any I ever beheld ; because one could not help remembering that this powerful fleet was sailing in an enemy's bay , and was filled with troops for the invasion of that enemy's country ...
... fleet : The sight was ... as grand and imposing as any I ever beheld ; because one could not help remembering that this powerful fleet was sailing in an enemy's bay , and was filled with troops for the invasion of that enemy's country ...
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... fleet under Admiral Cochrane out in the bay . The mauling they had experienced on the Potomac had cost them 7 killed and 35 dead compared with 11 Americans dead and 19 wounded.67 Gordon's squadron was immediately added to the fleet that ...
... fleet under Admiral Cochrane out in the bay . The mauling they had experienced on the Potomac had cost them 7 killed and 35 dead compared with 11 Americans dead and 19 wounded.67 Gordon's squadron was immediately added to the fleet that ...
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... fleet swept up the western shore of Maryland , Americans " fired alarm guns all along the coast and showed every symptom of terror . " 24 In his Narrative of the Campaigns , Gleig describes the effect on Annapolis : In passing Annapolis ...
... fleet swept up the western shore of Maryland , Americans " fired alarm guns all along the coast and showed every symptom of terror . " 24 In his Narrative of the Campaigns , Gleig describes the effect on Annapolis : In passing Annapolis ...
Contents
Chapter Two A Nest of Pirates | 11 |
Chapter Four Cockburns Terror | 27 |
Chapter Five Norfolk Attacked Hampton Ravished | 40 |
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