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Utmost Gallantry: The U.S. and Royal Navies at Sea in the War of 1812

Utmost Gallantry: The U.S. and Royal Navies at Sea in the War of 1812

McCranie, Kevin D.

Hardcover

Armed ForcesNaval HistoryOther Wars

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 159114504X
ISBN13: 9781591145042
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: Nov 15 2011
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Focusing on the oceanic war rather than on the war in the Great Lakes, this study charts the War of 1812 from the perspectives of the two opposing navies at sea, one the largest navies in the world, the other a small, upstart navy just three decades old. While American naval leadership searched for a means of contesting Britain's naval dominance, the English sought to destroy the U.S. Navy and protect its oceanic highways. Instead of describing battles between opposing warships, Kevin McCranie evaluates entire cruises by American and British men-of-war, noting both successes and failures and how they translated into broader strategies. In the process, his study becomes a history of how the two navies fought the oceanic war, linking high-level governmental decisions about strategy to the operational use of fleets in the Atlantic and Caribbean and from the south Pacific to the Indian Ocean.

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