The History of Our Navy from Its Origin to the Present Day 1775 to 1897

1897. Part Two of Four. With more than 400 illustrations, maps and diagrams. Contents: Troubles on the Eve of War; The Outlook Was, at First, Not Pleasing; The First Exhibit of Yankee Mettle; A Race for the Life of a Nation; The Constitution and the Guerriere; Fought in a Hatteras Gale; Brought the Macedonian into Port; When the Constitution Sank the Java; Whipped in Fourteen Minutes; Loss of Lawrence and the Chesapeake; The Privateers of 1812; Early Work on the Great Lakes; The Battle on Lake Erie; Incidents of the Battle on Lake Erie; The War on Lake Ontario; Loss of the Little Sloop Argus; The Luck of a Yankee Cruiser; and Gunboats not Wholly Worthless. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417919949, 1417919957, 0766196720.