Donald R. Hickey,John Quincy  Adams,William Atherton,Charles  Ball,Joshua Barney,Henry Bathurst,Thomas Hart Benton,Big Warrior,Blackbird,Black Hawk,Thomas Vercheres de Boucherville,Thomas Boyle,Isaac Brock,Philip B. V. Broke,Benjamin F. Browne,Shadrach Byfield,Lord Byron,John C. Calhoun,William Ellery Channing,Cyrenius Chapin,Isaac Chauncey,Henry Clay,A.W. Cochran,Alexander Cochrane,James Fenimore Cooper,George Croghan,Daniel Curtis,Elias Darnell,William Dunlop,David G. Farragut,Patrick Finan,Cornelius Flummerfelt,Philip Freneau,Albert Gallatin,George Robert Gleig,Amos Hall,Jarvis Hanks,Charles Willing Hare,William Henry Harrison,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Nathan Heald,N.W. Hibbard,William E. Horner,Eber D. Howe,William Hull,Mary Stockton Hunter,James Inderwick,Washington Irving,Andrew Jackson,Thomas Jefferson,Francis Jeffrey,Paul  Jennings,Thomas Ap Catesby Jones,Henry Kent,Francis Scott Key,John Le Couteur,Robert Jenkinson,Robert Lucas,Thomas MacDonough,Dolley Madison,James Madison,George McFeely,James Monroe,Isaac Munroe,Hezekiah Niles,William B. Northcutt,Harrison Gray Otis,Richard E. Parker,Joseph Penley Jr.,Israel Pickens,Timothy Pickering,Stephen Popham,George Prevost,Robert Purdy,Josiah Quincy III,Red Jacket,Philip Reed,Samuel C. Reid,John   Richardson,Robert Rowley,James Scott,Winfield Scott,Laura Ingersoll Secord,John C. Sherbrooke,Harry Smith,Moses Smith,Alexander Smyth,John Strachan,Caleb Strong,Roger B. Taney,Tecumseh,Stephen Van Rensselaer,Daniel Webster,Arthur Wellesley,Jared Willson,Robert Young
We have met the enemy and they are ours . . . Donâ€™t give up the ship! . . . O! say can you see? . . ., Even as these words have lived in Americaâ€™s national memory, the war that gave rise to them remains little remembered and less understood. Now, this first-of-its-kind collection brings together letters, speeches, diary entries, newspaper and magazine articles, memoir excerpts, poems, sermons, songs, and military reports to provide a rich firsthand panorama of the War of 1812 as it was experienced by a wide range of participantsâ€”Americans, Britons, Canadians, and Indians.,Opening with President James Madisonâ€™s war message to Congress, the volume traces the debate surrounding the U.S. declaration of war against Great Britain, a controversial decision that divides the nation and precipitates a series of bloody riots in Baltimore. Meanwhile tensions between the United States and Indian tribes flare as future presidents William Henry Harrison and Andrew Jackson fight regional wars in the Old Northwest and Old Southwest.,Carefully selected sources, including some only recently uncovered, record the unfolding of a far-ranging conflict that was waged from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Chile to the Azores. Ordinary seaman Moses Smith presents a gripping account of the USS ,Constitution,â€™s defeat of HMS ,GuerriÃ¨re,; Shawnee leader Tecumseh criticizes the strategy of his British allies; Washington Irving describes the making of an American war hero; Laura Secord recounts the courageous nighttime adventure that would make her a Canadian national icon; Benjamin F. Browne of Salem, Massachusetts, recalls (with some help from his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne) his wartime imprisonment in England; Dolley Madison and her slave Paul Jennings offer differing accounts of their flight from the White House as British forces march on the nationâ€™s capital; the Duke of Wellington, fresh from his victory over Napoleonâ€™s forces in Spain, advises the British prime minister to cut his losses in America; former president Thomas Jefferson provides spirited commentary from the wings in letters to Madison, John Adams, Madame de StaÃ«l, and others. Here is the War of 1812 as it has never been seen before: a complex story, profound in its implications for the national destinies of its combatants, and rife with lessons for today.,The War of 1812, includes an introduction, headnotes, a chronology of events, biographical and explanatory endnotes, and an index, as well as endpaper maps.
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The War of 1812: Writings from America's Second War of Independence