2/12/2024 0 Comments U.S. Navy after War of 1812When his professors at Harvard rejected the topic for his honors thesis, TR (never "Teddy") spurned any formal academic distinction and went to work on his book. Navy on the oceans and the Great Lakes against history's greatest force afloat.įor over a century, the standard work on this subject has been The Naval War of 1812 by the 23-year-old Theodore Roosevelt. And the other was the truly remarkable success of the U.S. One was Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans, which occurred two weeks after the Anglo-American armistice was signed at Ghent. There were two prominent exceptions to what otherwise was a disaster for American arms. Even as things were, a relatively small British force burned the White House and Capitol in August 1814 and might have done the same to Baltimore if Fort McHenry had not held through all those bombs bursting in air. If Great Britain had not had to concern itself with the climax of the Napoleonic Wars and instead concentrated on the bothersome American brushfire, it could have devastated the young United States. Constitution, probably nothing more than a postage stamp would cause us to confront an unhappier historical fact: That this is also the 175th anniversary of the War of 1812.įor a very good reason Americans tend to forget that conflict. WERE 1987 not the bicentennial of the U.S. The Naval War of 1812 By Theodore Roosevelt (1882)
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