Year: 1983 Language: English Author: Emily. Cain Genre: History of the Navy Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 160 Description: In 1807 or 1812, it took weeks, even months, for news of such things to cross the Atlantic. Yet, the results of those events and decisions touched the scattered towns and settlements of the Canadas and the Old Northwest very intimately indeed. The tale of the two schooners, both of which lie at the heart of this book and at the bottom of Lake Ontario, is a fascinating account of how such messages and decisions turned the pursuits of peace into the tragic facts of war around the still-forested Great Lakes. Emily Cain has woven around these two little commercial vessels a fabric of detail that brings vividly before us the circumstances of their building, their peace-time purposes, and their conversion into ships of war. She recalls for us the acts of gallantry, of courage, and of fear of which they are still the memorials. Not least, she sets them in the context of a society that is primitive yet personal and excited by its almost idyllic surroundings. That society was, of course, deeply riven by confrontation between the two distant governments that held sway over its northern and southern portions. When Britain undertook to oppose the continental tyranny imposed upon Europe by Napoleon she decided that she must prevent trade with the French-controlled European ports. The resulting interference with American ships on the high seas was viewed by Presidents Jefferson and Madison as infringing upon the recently won independence of the United States, and the end result was the War of 1812. The manner in which the people of the Great Lakes region were enmeshed in this spin-off of a world-wide struggle is the core of the story of Hamilton and Scourge.
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Ghost Ships
Language: English
Author: Emily. Cain
Genre: History of the Navy
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 160
Description: In 1807 or 1812, it took weeks, even months, for news of such things to cross the Atlantic. Yet, the results of those events and decisions touched the scattered towns and settlements of the Canadas and the Old Northwest very intimately indeed. The tale of the two schooners, both of which lie at the heart of this book and at the bottom of Lake Ontario, is a fascinating account of how such messages and decisions turned the pursuits of peace into the tragic facts of war around the still-forested Great Lakes.
Emily Cain has woven around these two little commercial vessels a fabric of detail that brings vividly before us the circumstances of their building, their peace-time purposes, and their conversion into ships of war. She recalls for us the acts of gallantry, of courage, and of fear of which they are still the memorials. Not least, she sets them in the context of a society that is primitive yet personal and excited by its almost idyllic surroundings.
That society was, of course, deeply riven by confrontation between the two distant governments that held sway over its northern and southern portions. When Britain undertook to oppose the continental tyranny imposed upon Europe by Napoleon she decided that she must prevent trade with the French-controlled European ports. The resulting interference with American ships on the high seas was viewed by Presidents Jefferson and Madison as infringing upon the recently won independence of the United States, and the end result was the War of 1812. The manner in which the people of the Great Lakes region were enmeshed in this spin-off of a world-wide struggle is the core of the story of Hamilton and Scourge.
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