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

The Historian | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815. By Wade G. Dudley. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 229. $32.95.)

The author of this study challenges the longstanding, and widely followed, thesis of Alfred T. Mahan that the United States was in the tight grip of the British naval blockade during most of the War of 1812. Unfortunately, much of the hard data has been lost, or is unavailable, to make an ironclad case for the ineffectiveness of the blockade. Under that limitation, Wade G. Dudley has had to resort to a ...

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