Perry's Lake Erie fleet
Subtitle: after the glory
By: David Frew
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781609496104
Subjects: United States; Naval History; Lake Erie, Battle of, 1813; Naval operations; United States. Navy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Usher Parsons' baptism: cannonballs and splinters; title: Before the wars: Native North Americans meet the Europeans; title: Victory on Lake Erie: limping home; title: Lake Erie: the Iroquois River sea; title: Misery Bay miseries: lake fever; title: North Country: Sinclair's challenge; title: Daniel Dobbins: sailing master; title: The burnings: from York and Dover Mills to Washington, D.C.; title: Miller Worsley's first command: the Georgian Bay supply line; title: Destination Mackinac: the 1814 campaign; title: The Nancy: a consolation prize; title: Sneak attack: Miller Worsley's Georgian Bay victory; title: Fleet shipwright: curmudgeon, logistics specialist and spy; title: Perry and Elliott: the duel that never took place; title: Destiny: Perry, Sinclair, Worsley, Barclay, Elliott, Dobbins and Parsons; title: Perry's fleet: the ravages of time; title: James Fenimore Cooper enters the debate: Elliott's last stand; title: Salvaging Perry's fleet: the resurrections of Lawrence and Niagara; title: Wasaga Beach gives up its dead: the Nancy rises from the silt; title: The new Niagara: the brig sails again; title: Shipwreck in Lake Erie: could it be Caledonia?; title: The mysteries of history: approaching the two-hundred-year anniversary; title: Appendix: American and British ships from the Battle of Lake Erie.