war of 1812

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 595

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 11, 2019

This is the grave of Oliver Hazard Perry. Born in 1785 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, Perry grew up in the naval family that included his father Christopher and, later, his brother Matthew. He became a midshipman in the Navy in 1799, when he was...

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“God deliver me from monarch’s gag laws and all their subjects”: Visions of the Past, Thanks to Gutenberg (V)

By Erik Loomis

On June 27, 2016

In 1909, an editor in Quebec released an anonymous, fragmentary diary of a U.S. officer captured in the War of 1812 and held prisoner. It's titled Journal of an American.

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Visions of the Past, Thanks to Gutenberg (I)

By Erik Loomis

On June 25, 2016

I am presently on the beach in the Dominican Republic. Every now and then, often when on vacation, I start reading random things one can find on the Gutenberg Project,.

Book Review: Alan Taylor: The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 12, 2016

Alan Taylor's Pulitzer Prize winning history of slavery in Virginia during the American Revolution and Early Republic is truly outstanding. The American Revolution created a rhetoric of equality that contributed to emancipation in the North but in the South and especially in Virginia, where so...

Robert Farley

A Bad Morality and a Bad Philosophy

By Robert Farley

On May 29, 2013

This is fascinating stuff, as much for the blood and gore of Age of Sail naval warfare as for the legal complications associated with impressed Americans in the War of.

Robert Farley

The First Neocon War?

By Robert Farley

On June 25, 2012

Jefferson Morley: The War of 1812 matters because it was America’s first war of choice. The United States did not have to declare war on Great Britain on June 18,.

War!

By Robert Farley

In Robert Farley

On June 18, 2012

And so it's come to this: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That war be and is hereby declared to exist between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the...

Robert Farley

“And the French. No, not the French. Yes, the French!”

By Robert Farley

On June 6, 2012

Commemoration of the War of Northern Aggression (Canadian Edition) continues apace: CollegeHumor’s Favorite Funny Videos

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The Navy Relives the War of 1812

By Robert Farley

On May 22, 2012

Concerned about its image, the Navy has determined that the War of 1812 is just the thing it needs: Faced with little public understanding of its modern mission, the U.S..

Remembering Our Most Glorious War

By Robert Farley

In Robert Farley

On April 20, 2012

Relentlessly, the calendar grinds toward the event which could tear this blog apart, the bicentenary of the War of 1812. The loyal American contributors to this blog will surely commemorate the triumphs of that war to maintain freedom against the perfidious, vengeful British and their...

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