Browsing by Subject "War of 1812"

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    • Attitudes towards Privateering during the Era of the Early American Republic 
      Holcomb IV, James R. (2007-07-14)
      Lacking sufficient funds to build and maintain a sizeable navy, the young United States was forced to employ privateers as a “stop-gap navy” in its struggles against stronger sea powers during the War for Independence, the ...
    • His Majesty's hired transport schooner Nancy 
      Sabick, Christopher Robert (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)
      In 1997 a group of archaeologists from Texas A&M University's Nautical Archaeology Program traveled to Wasaga Beach, Ontario to document the hull remains of the eighteenth-century schooner Nancy. In 1927, the schooner was ...
    • Small Arms Artifacts from the Battle of Plattsburgh Bay 
      Parody, Mason Arthur (2020-01-08)
      On September 11, 1814, Captain George Downie of the British Royal Navy sailed a squadron of four ships and a dozen gunboats around Cumberland Head, on the New York shore of Lake Champlain, where Captain Thomas Macdonough ...