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description: No one has been so well equipped as C. S. Forester to dramatize the sea battles of the War of 1812 to characterize the heroes more skillfully or to comprehend more shrewdly the world unrest that made it possible for an infant republic to embarrass a great nation rich in one hundred years of sea triumphs.
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title: The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812
publisher: Reading Essentials