Selected Essays: War of 1812
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(E-book version)Award winning selected papers, written by author, while attending the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Papers were presented, in part, at a symposium of the North Carolina Association of Historians and was later, as an abstract, published in their annual publications.
One essay discusses the value of the American Privateer during the War of 1812. The British Naval attack on the American Privateer vessel Armstrong is introduced as a case study. Second essay details the effectiveness of the American army and militia during the War of 1812. Book will be an interesting reading for the novice historian, people who like military history, and the advance historian.100% of sales of this book helps Resurrection Mission~~protecting endangered cemeteries and rediscovering our "forgotten" military Veterans.
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"No axe grinding here - Just the truth."
Did you like History at school? I did, a lot, but like many kids of average IQ's, the fact that we were being fed the facts gleaned from a thousand pairs of British binoculars/eyeglasses only, from almost two Millenia, did not even enter our minds, minds where the Union Jack flew proudly over a world map coloured red. But, I digress I suppose, but only slightly. In this short series of essays on the 1812 war between the USA and Britain, Jack Robinson has not fallen for this trap - we do not get the opposite perspective only, as gleaned from the best Acme Field Glasses; we get the plain, simple, honest, and sometimes brutal truth, whether it is US... More >
Did you like History at school? I did, a lot, but like many kids of average IQ's, the fact that we were being fed the facts gleaned from a thousand pairs of British binoculars/eyeglasses only, from almost two Millenia, did not even enter our minds, minds where the Union Jack flew proudly over a world map coloured red. But, I digress I suppose, but only slightly. In this short series of essays on the 1812 war between the USA and Britain, Jack Robinson has not fallen for this trap - we do not get the opposite perspective only, as gleaned from the best Acme Field Glasses; we get the plain, simple, honest, and sometimes brutal truth, whether it is US... More >
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