The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812

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Age of a Fighting Sail
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Published: 1978-04-04
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No one has been so well equipped as C. S. Forester to dramatize the sea battles of the War of 1812, to characterize the heroes more skillfully, or to comprehend more shrewdly the world unrest that made it possible for an infant republic to embarrass a great nation rich in one hundred years of sea triumphs.

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