Author: BARNES, JAMES
Title: Yankee ships and Yankee sailors: - Tales of 1812
Description: New York: The macmillan Company, 1922; 8vo (19.5cm), frontispiece, xi+281pp., dark red cloth w. gilt decorative cover and spine. Bookplates on front papers, spine 3cm splitting, back hinge weak, but book still good enough. Rare in NL. ¶ "The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 - 17 February 1815) was a conflict fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It began when the US declared war on 18 June 1812 and, although peace terms were agreed in the December 1814 Treaty of Ghent, did not officially end until ratified by Congress on 17 February 1815." (Wikipedia)

Keywords: United States, 19th c. naval history