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The War of 1812 is typically noted for a handful of events: the burning of the White House, the rise of the Star Spangled Banner, and the battle of New Orleans. But in fact the greatest consequence of that distant conflict was the birth of the U.S. Navy. During the War of 1812, America's tiny fleet took on the mightiest naval power on earth, besting the British in a string of victories that stunned both nations. In his new book, Ships of Oak and Guns of Iron: The War of 1812 and the Birth of the American Navy, author Dr. Ronald Utt not only sheds new light on the naval battles of the War of 1812 and how they gave birth to our nation's great navy, but tells the story of the War of 1812 through the portraits of famous American war heroes. From the cunning Stephen Decatur to the fierce David Porter, Ships of Oak and Guns of Iron relates how thousands of American men and boys gave better than they got against the British Navy. The great age of fighting sail is as rich in heroic drama as any epoch. Dr. Utt's Ships of Oak and Guns of Iron retrieves the American chapter of that epoch from unjustified obscurity, and offers readers an intriguing chronicle of the War of 1812 as well as a unique perspective on the birth of the U.S. Navy.… (más)
Unfortunately Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron is filled with errors of fact that cause those familiar with the conflict to cringe. The intrepid captain of the sloop-of-war Wasp, Johnston Blakeley, has his last name consistently misspelled. Several times the ranks of British and American officers are incorrectly noted. Anyone who describes Put-in-Bay, Ohio, as “off the eastern shore of the Bass Islands” in Lake Erie has not looked at a map. Most grievous is the suggestion that Commodore Isaac Chauncey on Lake Ontario was “a good strategist and an excellent judge of character in the subordinates he selected and to whom he gave great responsibility: Oliver Hazard Perry, Winfield Scott, Thomas Macdonough, and Zebulon Pike.”
Does Utt not understand that Generals Scott and Pike were not selected by Chauncey nor were they under his command, that on Lake Champlain Macdonough had an independent command, and that although Perry was selected by him and was his subordinate, the eventual victor on Lake Erie was so exasperated with his superior that he offered his resignation in frustration over what he considered was a lack of support?
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This book is dedicated to the memory of June and Fred Utt.
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PARTICIPANTS IN THE WAR OF 1812 William Henry Allen. Lieutenant, USN. Served on the Chesapeake in her confrontation with Leopard in June 1806 and with Decatur on the United States when she captured Macedonian on 25 October 1812.
INTRODUCTION At the 1912 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held that year in Boston, one of America's preeminent historians, Charles Francis Adams, the great-grandson of John Adams, gave the keynote address to an audience of distinguished academics and public officials, including former President Theodore Roosevelt, who was now president of the Association.
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The War of 1812 is typically noted for a handful of events: the burning of the White House, the rise of the Star Spangled Banner, and the battle of New Orleans. But in fact the greatest consequence of that distant conflict was the birth of the U.S. Navy. During the War of 1812, America's tiny fleet took on the mightiest naval power on earth, besting the British in a string of victories that stunned both nations. In his new book, Ships of Oak and Guns of Iron: The War of 1812 and the Birth of the American Navy, author Dr. Ronald Utt not only sheds new light on the naval battles of the War of 1812 and how they gave birth to our nation's great navy, but tells the story of the War of 1812 through the portraits of famous American war heroes. From the cunning Stephen Decatur to the fierce David Porter, Ships of Oak and Guns of Iron relates how thousands of American men and boys gave better than they got against the British Navy. The great age of fighting sail is as rich in heroic drama as any epoch. Dr. Utt's Ships of Oak and Guns of Iron retrieves the American chapter of that epoch from unjustified obscurity, and offers readers an intriguing chronicle of the War of 1812 as well as a unique perspective on the birth of the U.S. Navy.
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Does Utt not understand that Generals Scott and Pike were not selected by Chauncey nor were they under his command, that on Lake Champlain Macdonough had an independent command, and that although Perry was selected by him and was his subordinate, the eventual victor on Lake Erie was so exasperated with his superior that he offered his resignation in frustration over what he considered was a lack of support?