Splintering the Wooden Wall: the British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815.(Book Review)

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815. By Wade G. Dudley. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. [xiv], 229. $32.95, ISBN 1-55750-167-X.)

The target of this book is Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, the naval historian and "sea power" strategist of the late nineteenth century. As a student of naval warfare in the age of Napoleon and Horatio Nelson, Mahan produced a detailed analysis of the Anglo-American war of 1812-1815. A large part of that struggle consisted of the British attempt to close the American coastline to maritime and ...

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