Injured Honor: The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, June 22, 1807
by Spencer Tucker, Professor and Holder of the John Biggs Chair in Military History Spencer C Tucker, Frank Theodore Reuter
Category: History

The authors present a fascinating reconstruction of the naval inquiry into the affair, as well as an investigation of the controversial courts-martial of Commodore James Barron and other Chesapeake officers that bitterly divided the officer corps.