The War of 1812 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Donald R. Hickey
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1801-1815
- Setting: The eastern United States, the Canadian border, New Orleans, and the high seas
- Principal Characters: James Madison, Oliver Hazard Perry, Andrew Jackson, Admiral Sir George Cockburn
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, War, Canada or Canadians, Presidents, Great Britain, Navies, Political conventions, Republican Party
- Locales: New Orleans, LA, Canada, Oceans, East (U.S.)
The title of Donald R. Hickey’s work is apt, for the War of 1812 is, indeed, a conflict forgotten by most Americans. As Hickey points out, even to contemporaries the conflict was confusing, with endless debates as to the actual causes, the true goals, and the ultimate result of the entire affair. Faced with motives that were sometimes questionable; reviewing military campaigns that were too often failures, and considering administrative and bureaucratic initiatives that seem amateurish at best, it is little wonder that the tendency has been to cloak the conflict as something of a...
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