Sea Fight Off Monhegan
Author : Sherwood Picking
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Atlantic Coast (Me.)
ISBN :
Author : Sherwood Picking
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Atlantic Coast (Me.)
ISBN :
Author : David Hanna
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0451239202
On a September day in 1813, as citizens watched from the rocky shore of Pemaquid, Maine, two of the last and bravest military sailing commanders engaged in a battle that would change the course of the War of 1812... Samuel Blyth was the youthful commander of His Britannic Majesty’s brig Boxer, and William Burrows, younger still, commanded the USS Enterprise. Both men valued honor above all, and on this day their commitment would be put to the ultimate test. Though it lasted less than an hour, the battle between the Boxer and the Enterprise was a brutal contest whose outcome was uncertain. When the cannon smoke cleared, good men had been lost, and the U.S. Navy's role in the war had changed. In Knights of the Sea, David Hanna brings to life a lost era, paying tribute to the young commanders who considered it the highest honor to harness the wind to meet their foes, and would be immortalized by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The only major naval battle of the War of 1812, the battle between the Boxer and the Enterprise came to represent not only a military turning point, but a maritime era that would soon be gone forever. INCLUDES PHOTOS AND MAPS
Author : Herbert Milton Sylvester
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Maine
ISBN :
Author : Robert C. Duncan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393048582
Here, entirely updated, is the latest edition of the most complete, authoritative cruising guide to the northeastern coast.
Author : Herbert Milton Sylvester
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Casco Bay (Me.)
ISBN :
Author : Julia Dean
Publisher : Ticknor & Fields
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780395664766
A full-color photoessay captures life among members of the close-knit community on Monhegan Island, a small island off the coast of Maine, from the tranquil isolation of their winters to the huge influx of tourists during the summer season.
Author : William S. Dudley
Publisher :
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
"During the War of 1812 the U.S. Navy came of age. In fleet actions on the lakes and single ship engagements at sea, American men of war defeated Royal Navy ships of similar force. Naval officers such as Isaac Hull, Stephen Decatur, Oliver H. Perry, David Porter and Thomas Macdonough became heroes, and their ships, Constitution, United States, Niagara, Essex, and Saratoga, symbols for an American public proud of its navy. The three volumes will again call to mind the famous naval actions and events of our second war of independence with Great Britain"--Introduction.
Author : James H. Ellis
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2009
Category : New England
ISBN : 0875866913
An entertaining, well-researched study details naval battles and coastal incursions through diaries and regional news articles on the War of 1812. New England was hard hit by the War of 1812 with Great Britain. The war severely injured the maritime and commercial economy and inflamed the difference in interests between the Northeast and the rest of the country, where agriculture was the mainstay. The author has combed sources near and far, bringing to life a drama that was international in scope? but so local in impact.
Author : Herbert Milton Sylvester
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Maine
ISBN :
Author : George C. Daughan
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0465020461
Tells the story of how America's war fleet, only twenty ships strong, was able to defeat the world's greatest imperial power through a combination of nautical deftness and sheer bravado to win the War of 1812.