Blue Jackets of 1812
Subtitle: A History of the Naval Battles of the Second War with Great Britain to Which is Prefixed an Account of the French War of 1798
Contributors: W. C. Jackson (Illustrator)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: May 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781432618834
Subjects: History / Military / Naval; Military - Naval; History; History - Military / War; Military
First sentence: ON a bright November afternoon in the year 1783, the streets of New York City, bordering on the bay, were crowded with excited people, pushing and elbowing each other rudely, and all pressing down to the water-side, where was collected a huge crowd, looking anxiously across the broad waters of the noble bay, to a spot where lay anchored a large squadron of ships.