![]() ![]() This treatment, along with their brilliant seamanship, helped the American navy win many battles that on paper they never should have won.Īnother important theme of 1812: The Navy’s War is that the United States paid a heavy price for not building a larger fleet during the last decade of the 18th and first decade of the 19th centuries. Daughan then contrasts the behavior of British captains with their American counterparts, who treated their men, including their black seamen, far better. Instead of changing their practices, they assumed-often incorrectly-that seamen on American boats were British nationals. ![]() Daughan demonstrates that London considered impressments vital to its national security because, thanks to the harsh treatment British captains meted out, their seamen deserted in droves. The impressment of American sailors into the British navy was the most egregious example of the way that London flaunted its superiority on the high seas and thereby violated American sovereignty. 1812: The Navy’s War is an important, well-researched and timely book-next year marks the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812-which scholars and lay persons alike will enjoy for its descriptions of the battles and Daughan’s analysis of the domestic and international dimensions of the war. ![]() Daughan picks up where he left off in his Samuel Eliot Morison award-winning If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy- From the Revolution to the War of 1812 (which Basic just released in paperback). ![]() navy successfully challenged British supremacy. In an era when the British Navy supposedly ruled the world, the U.S. navy’s significant battles during the War of 1812. In his new book, George Daughan provides vivid and detailed recreations of the U.S. ![]()
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