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Popular memory of the War of 1812 caroms from the beleaguered Fort McHenry to the burning White House to an embattled New Orleans. But the critical action was elsewhere, as Richard V. Barbuto tells us in this clarifying work that puts the state of New York squarely at the center of America's first foreign war. British demands to move the northern border as far south as the Ohio River put New York on the first line of defense. But it was the ...

Popular memory of the War of 1812 caroms from the beleaguered Fort McHenry to the burning White House to an embattled New Orleans. But the critical action was elsewhere, as Richard V. Barbuto tells us in this clarifying work that puts the state of New York squarely at the center of America's first foreign war.British demands to move the northern border as far south as the Ohio River put New York on the first line of defense. But it was the lea...

Analyzes the Niagara Campaign of 1814 - America's ambitious but failed attempt to wrest Canada from British control. The author argues that the American government was never really able to harness, co-ordinate and focus its huge resources in ways that would have allowed the campaign to succeed.

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