War in the Chesapeake
Subtitle: The British Campaigns to Control the Bay, 1813-1814
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781612518657
Subjects: United states, history, war of 1812, campaigns; United states, history, military
Description: In the early nineteenth century, the United States of America was far from united. The United States faced internal strife over the extent of governance and the rights of individual states. The United States' relationship with their former colonial power was also uncertain. Britain impressed American sailors and supported Native Americans' actions in the northwest and on the Canadian border. In the summer of 1812, President James Madison chose to go to war against Britain. War in the Chesapeake illustrates the causes for the War of 1812, the political impacts of the war on America, and the war effort in the Chesapeake Bay. -- Amazon.com.