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by J.M. Hitsman (Author)
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  • Paperback: 397 pages
  • Publisher: Robin Brass Studio; Revised edition edition (3 April 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1896941133
  • ISBN-13: 978-1896941134
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
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4.0 out of 5 stars war of 1812, 22 Dec 2005
By Sean (Northumberland, UK) - See all my reviews
First Published in 1965 this classic has been updated by well known War Of 1812 scholar Donald E. Graves to include:

-Forward by C. Prevost (descendent of the much maligned General)
-Intro Essey by Graves
-More the 50 illustrations of Leaders, Uniforms, Battleships, Scenes etc..
-Twenty Maps of Campaigns and Battles
-Appendixs including 2 full important documents, Order of Battle and Service, Troop Strengths of British Army, Canadian Militia, Native Forces, British and Canadian Military Heritage, British and American Naval forces, British and Canadian Battle Honours Medals and Awards, Navel info, the first Nations that fought on both sides, Medals, Battle Honours
-Extensive War Of 1812 Bibliography
-Extensive and highly informative Notes by Graves

It was a funny old war was the War Of 1812, the last and 2nd war fought between Great Britain and America. Both countrys being horribly unprepared, America only possessing around a few thousand regulars and Britain being already stretched against Napoleon. It's the War that gave the Americans the Star Spangled Banner and the White House; the Treaty Of Ghent which ended it didn't even address the reasons for going to war and the most famous battle was fought after the Treaty was signed thus didn't effect the political outcome

It's also curious the way Canadian and American authors have wrote jingoistic and often outright false accounts well into the 20th Century. For Canadians it's the 'militia myth' formulated on Queenstone Heights and at Chateauguay; the myth of farmer boys defending Canadian soil from the American Eagle with just a tad bit of help from British redcoats. American historians have rather unconvincingly tried to turn the war into a second War Of Independence by conveniently ignoring the 'War Hawks' party and focusing instead on Royal Navy Impressment of their sailors for the reasons for war. American accounts of New Orleans and Andrew Jackson have reached shear hyperbole. From a British perspective the war has become overshadowed by Wellington's Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns; as one of Graves notes says: the British N. American Army was treated much how the British 14th Army in Burma 1943-45 was treated ie the Forgotten Army.

This Canadian Book first published in 1965 did much to correct the previous dross written about this peculiar conflict. Hitsman is mainly writing from a Anglo-Canadian viewpoint but does gave ample space for the American viewpoint and treats it whenever possible in a unbiased manner.
He focus mostly on the land conflict in Upper and Lower Canada but devotes relevent time to Naval operations, the Orleans Campaign etc. There is a lot of new information about the War Of 1812 since this was first published, not a problem. War Of 1812 expert: Graves has suitably updated this lost classic to reclaim it's place as arguably still the definitive account of the War Of 1812.

It is a truly lavish book, a feast for the eye. Just digging into the notes will uncover all sorts of informative anecdotes ranging from British regulars, The proud Indian warrior Tecumseh, Canadian Militia, etc. Of course it is Hitsman's brilliant account which still makes this the essential history it is today. Histman has a extraordinary knack for encompassing a wealth of detailed history into one strong highly readable account. It was he who correctly proved that it was actually British Regulars and not Canadian Militia who fought the War Of 1812. He reduces New Orleans to its correct place, the main theatre being of course the American-Canadian border. Lake Champlain was probably a more important American victory than New Orleans anyhow as it affected the Treaty Of Ghent putting some strut back in the stride of the American delegates previously dismayed by the Bladensberg Races, Washington etc. The burning of Washington was of course a direct reappraisal for American atrocities against York (Toronto), Newark and Long Point.

I approached this book being interested in the Napoleonic era and found it a absorbing account of a forgetting war. From Issac Brocks defence at Queenstone Heights and his Nelsonian death, the heat of Musketry fire at Chippewa and the epic battle between the Chesapeake and the Shannon which made Rugby schoolboys sing ''Brave Broke he waved his sword, Crying now my lads aboard. And we'll stop their playing Yankee-doodle-dandy oh!''
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3.0 out of 5 stars Incredible war of 1812, 24 Oct 2008
By David Herdson (Shipley, Yorkshire, England) - See all my reviews
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A very interesting history of the War of 1812, mainly from a Canadian/British viewpoint. Graves' edition helpfully includes many footnotes omitted by the publisher in the original and adds his own notes both to address subsequent research into the war and fleshing out detail and side-issues of interest. These notes are as interesting a part as Hitsman's main narrative.

The War of 1812 is rather unjustly overlooked by history. While it was a relatively minor conflict compared with what amounted to a world war being waged by and against Napoleon, and was sandwiched between the more dramatic 1775-83 and 1861-5 wars in America, it had a profound long-term effect on the world even if (unlike the wars around it), that effect was to entrench the status quo. Many national myths arose from it - myths which Hitsman does much to debunk - but were nonetheless vital in reaffirming a national consciousness in both Canada and the US.

The book is a very readable history for the layreader interested in the era. The main text runs to only 280 pages (plus a little over 100 pages of notes and appendices) so some subjects are covered in more depth than others. Hitsman focuses on the actions between the armies in the Great Lakes theatre and the political dynamics driving both sides. Given less prominence than perhaps is due are (in no particular order) the naval war outside the Great Lakes, the campaign in the South including including the battle of New Orleans, the role of native Americans, the impact on domestic life in the campaign areas and the broader geopolitical aspects of the war.

Even with those reservations, this is a worthwhile read.
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