The second volume of Alfred Thayer Mahan’s study of the War of 1812 continues his strategic analysis of the naval conflict between the United States and Britain, covering the later campaigns on the Great Lakes, the Atlantic seaboard operations, and the final phases of a war that ended in a negotiated peace with neither side decisively victorious. Mahan applies his rigorous sea-power framework to assess what the war revealed about American naval capacity and ambition.
Together with Volume 1, this work is the definitive analytical history of American naval participation in the War of 1812 from the leading naval theorist of the age. Download this free EPUB for Mahan’s authoritative concluding assessment of the war at sea.