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Author : Jerome R. Garitee
Publisher : Wesleyan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036891278
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Ammunition
ISBN : UOM:39015027429581
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045325821
Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104251832
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Arms transfers
ISBN : UCAL:B5147678
Considers Neutrality Act revisions, including extension of "cash-and-carry" provision requiring foreign governments to pay currency for, and transport, armaments produced in U.S. (expressly prohibiting U.S. bottoms from shipping armaments to belligerents). Also considers restrictions and controls on domestic manufacture of armaments.
Author : Andrew Lambert
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571273218
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.
Author : Donald R. Hickey
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252055744
No longer willing to accept naval blockades, the impressment of American seamen, and seizures of American ships and cargos, the United States declared war on Great Britain. The aim was to frighten Britain into concessions and, if that failed, to bring the war to a swift conclusion with a quick strike at Canada. But the British refused to cave in to American demands, the Canadian campaign ended in disaster, and the U.S. government had to flee Washington, D.C., when it was invaded and burned by a British army. By all objective measures, the War of 1812 was a debacle for the young republic, and yet it was celebrated as a great military triumph. The American people believed they had won the war and expelled the invader. Oliver H. Perry became a military hero, Francis Scott Key composed what became the national anthem and commenced a national reverence for the flag, and the U.S.S. Constitution, "Old Ironsides," became a symbol of American invincibility. Every aspect of the war, from its causes to its conclusion, was refashioned to heighten the successes, obscure the mistakes, and blur embarrassing distinctions, long before there were mass media or public relations officers in the Pentagon. In this entertaining and meticulously researched book by America's leading authority on the War of 1812, Donald R. Hickey dispels the many misconcep-tions that distort our view of America's second war with Great Britain. Embracing military, naval, political, economic, and diplomatic analyses, Hickey looks carefully at how the war was fought between 1812 and 1815, and how it was remembered thereafter. Was the original declaration of war a bluff? What were the real roles of Canadian traitor Joseph Willcocks, Mohawk leader John Norton, pirate Jean Laffite, and American naval hero Lucy Baker? Who killed the Shawnee chief Tecumseh and who shot the British general Isaac Brock? Who actually won the war, and what is its lasting legacy? Hickey peels away fantasies and embellishments to explore why cer-tain myths gained currency and how they contributed to the way that the United States and Canada view themselves and each other.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : United States
ISBN : PURD:32754075665210
Author : William S. Dudley,Michael J. Crawford,Christine F. Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCLA:L0066212127
"During the War of 1812 the U.S. Navy came of age. In fleet actions on the lakes and single ship engagements at sea, American men of war defeated Royal Navy ships of similar force. Naval officers such as Isaac Hull, Stephen Decatur, Oliver H. Perry, David Porter and Thomas Macdonough became heroes, and their ships, Constitution, United States, Niagara, Essex, and Saratoga, symbols for an American public proud of its navy. The three volumes will again call to mind the famous naval actions and events of our second war of independence with Great Britain"--Introduction.
Author : Andy Doolen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199348633
In contrast to later imperial pursuits in Mexico, Cuba, and the Philippines, the early United States extended its boundaries through less sensational modes of territorialization: land deals, slavery expansion, treaty diplomacy, immigration and settlement, and the addition of new states on the border. Never the exclusive top-down product of any single strategic plan, empire building relied rather on a hazy, ever-shifting boundary between state and non-state action. Territories of Empire examines the border writings of U.S. explorers, politicians, travelers, novelists, merchants, newspapermen, and other eye-witnesses to the rapid expansion of the United States in the aftermath of the Louisiana Purchase. It traces how different authors and texts imagined the relations between nation-state and border and reveals how continental ambitions were achieved through the uneven and unpredictable process of territorialization. Andy Doolen looks to writings as dissimilar as Kentucky newspaper accounts of the Aaron Burr conspiracy, the explorer Zebulon Pike's 1810 account of making peace with the Santee Sioux before becoming terribly lost near the upper Rio Grande, and Timothy Flint's 1826 novel about a young New Englander who fights in the Mexican independence struggle in showing how national sentiments were galvanized in support of greater territorial and commercial growth. To this end, Doolen makes clear how both private citizens and government officials collectively authored the spatial logic of a continental republic. Combining textual analysis with theories of transnationalism and empire, Territories of Empire reconstructs the development of a continental imaginary highly attuned to the objectives of U.S. imperialism, while often betraying an unsettling awareness of resistance and diversity beyond the border.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026622220
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : United States
ISBN : UCLA:L0070902986
Author : William S. Dudley,Michael J. Crawford,Christine F. Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210010020210
"During the War of 1812 the U.S. Navy came of age. In fleet actions on the lakes and single ship engagements at sea, American men of war defeated Royal Navy ships of similar force. Naval officers such as Isaac Hull, Stephen Decatur, Oliver H. Perry, David Porter and Thomas Macdonough became heroes, and their ships, Constitution, United States, Niagara, Essex, and Saratoga, symbols for an American public proud of its navy. The three volumes will again call to mind the famous naval actions and events of our second war of independence with Great Britain"--Introduction.
Author : Barbara A. Lynch,John E. Vajda
Publisher : Naval Historical Center
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UCBK:C051939110
Author : Kenneth B. Moss
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780700627752
“Letters of marque” might suggest privateers of the Elizabethan era or the American Revolution. But such conventions are duly covered in the US Constitution, and the private military instruments they sanction are very much at work today in the form of mercenaries and military contractors. A history of such practices up to the present day, Marque and Reprisal by Kenneth B. Moss offers unique insight into the role of private actors in military conflicts and the reason they are increasingly deployed in our day. Along with an overview of mercenaries and privateers, Marque and Reprisal provides a comprehensive history of the “marque and reprisal” clause in the US Constitution, reminding us that it is not as arcane as it seems and arguing that it is not a license for all forms of undeclared war. Within this historical context Moss explains why governments and states have sought control over warfare and actors—and why private actors have reappeared in force in recent conflicts. He also looks ahead to the likelihood that cyberwar will become an important venue for “private warfare.” Moss wonders if international law will be up to the challenges of private military actors in the digital realm. Is international law, in fact, equipped to meet the challenges increasingly presented in our day by such extramilitary activity? A government makes no more serious decision than whether to resort to military force and war; and when doing so, Moss suggests, it should ensure that such actions are accountable, not on the sly, and not decided in the marketplace. Marque and Reprisal should inform future deliberations and decisions on that count.