The U.S. Army in the War of 1812 : an operational and command study / Robert S. Quimby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quimby, Robert S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Command of troops.

United States--History--War of 1812--Campaigns.

United States.

United States. Army--History--War of 1812.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1067 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This two-volume work by historian Robert Quimby presents a comprehensive and detailed analysis of military strategy, operations, and management during one of America's most neglected and least understood military campaigns, the War of 1812. With causes that can be traced to the epic contest against Napoleon in Europe beginning in 1803, the war itself was the first conducted by the young Constitutional government of the United States. Quimby demonstrates that failed American initiatives at the beginning of hostilities shattered the unrealistic optimism of the war's staunchest advocat

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Key To Document References; Part I: 1812; 1. Introduction; 2. General Hull's Campaign; 3. The War in the East; 4. The Fall and Winter Campaign in the Northwest- Part I: Securing the Frontier; 5. The Fall and Winter Campaign in the Northwest- Part II: The Battle of Frenchtown; 6. The War in the South; Part II: 1813; 7. Changes in Leadership; 8. The British Offensives in the West; 9. General Dearborn's Campaign; 10. Victory in the West; 11. Summer Doldrums in the East; 12. General Wilkinson's Campaign; 13. The Creek War- Part I: Fort Mims to the Battle of Econochaca

Part III: 181414. The Creek War- Part II: The Battle of Tohopeka to the End of the War; 15. Armstrong's New High Command; 16. General Brown's Campaign; 17. The British Offensive in the North; 18. The War around Chesapeake Bay- Part I: To the Burning of Washington; 19. The War around Chesapeake Bay- Part II: Baltimore; 20. The War in the West; 21. General Jackson's Gulf Campaign- Part I: Mobile and Pensacola; 22. General Jackson's Gulf Campaign- Part II: New Orleans-The "Night Battle"; 23. General Jackson's Gulf Campaign- Part III: New Orleans-the Main Battle; Epilogue; Appendix; Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 965-983) and index.

ISBN:

0-87013-947-9

0-585-22081-6

OCLC:

44959700