War of 1812 - short bibliography

Part of the collection referring to the War of 1812...

Our collections are of a nautical, maritime or naval nature. There are many other books and documents that are less "marine" in nature. Our choices do not suggest at all that unmentioned titles are not of interest to the historian. Our holdings may also include biographies and other works on ship design, naval and military matters, etc that are relevant to the War of 1812 without that being their primary focus.

This page dates back to 2007, but is still valuable for research purposes. Our current library catalogue listing allows for more detail on our holdings.

Entries arranged alphabetically by Author's last name

Title	Author	Publisher	ISBN	Year published
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Volume X VIII	(ed)	NS Historical Society		1914
Naval History of the United States Volume 1	Abbot, Willis J	Peter Fenelon Collier		1886
History of the War between GB and the USA	Auchinleck, Gilbert	Arms and Armour	0-85368-088-4	1855
New Interpretations in Naval History - Selected Papers from the 14th Naval History Symposium	Balano, Randy Carol and Symonds, Craig L (ed)	Naval Institute Press	1-55750-498-9	2001
Naval Actions of the war of 1812	Barnes, James	Harper and Brothers, NY		1896
Naval Actions of the war of 1812	Barnes, James	Cornmaket Press	7191-2019-5	1896
Lore and Legends of Long Point	Barrett, Harry B	Burns and MacEachern	0-887168-075-5	1977
Freighters of Fortune - The story of the Great Lakes	Beasley, Norman	Harper and Brothers, NY		1930
Sails and Steam in the mountains	Bellico, Russel P	Purple Mountain Press	0-935796-32-0	1992
Iroquois in the War of 1812, The	Benn, Carl	University of Toronto Press	0-8020-8145-2	1998
Les Américains attaquent	Berton, Pierre	Editions de l'homme	2-7619-0202-5	1980
Invasion of Canada, The	Berton, Pierre	McClelland and Stewart	0-7710-1235-7	1980
Flames across the border	Berton, Pierre	McClelland and Stewart	0-7710-1244-6	1981
Death of Tecumseh, The	Berton, Pierre	McClelland and Stewart	0-7710-1423-6	1994
Death of Isaac Brock, The	Berton, Pierre	McClelland and Stewart	0-7710-1426-0	1991
Capture of Detroit, The	Berton, Pierre	McClelland and Stewart	0-7710-1425-2	1991
A l'assaut du Québec	Berton, Pierre	Editions de l'homme	2-7619-0204-1	1981
A call to the Sea	Berube, Claude and Rodgaard, John	Potomac Books	1-57488-518-9	2005
Navies in the Mountains	Bird, Harrison	Oxford Universit Press, NY	62-9822	1962
Atlantic Anthology	Bird, Will R	McClelland and Stewart		1959
Stephen Decatur	Brady, Cyrus Townsend	Small, Maynard, and Co, Boston		1900
Ghost Ships, The	Cain, Emily	Musson Book Co Ltd	0-7737-0070-6	1983
Early American Boats	Carse, Robert	World Publishing Company		1968
Blaze of Glory - the fight for New Orleans 1814-1815	Carter, Samuel III	MacMillan	0-333-138287	1971
Richardson's War of 1812	Casselman, Alexander Clark	Historical Publishing Co.		1902
Search for speed under sail	Chapelle, Howard I	W.W. Norton	0-393-03127-6	1967
Baltimore Clipper, The	Chapelle, Howard I	Tradition Books		1930
Baltimore Clipper, The	Chapelle, Howard I	Bonanza Books	76-27148	1930
Short history of the United States Navy	Clark, George R	J.B. Lippincoyy Co		1910
Catalogue of the library, manuscripts, autograph letters, maps and prints forming the collection of Gerald E. Hart	Clibbie, C.F.	Charles F. Libbie and Co, Auctioneers, Boston		1890
Royal Navy, The - Volume 6	Clowes, William Laird	Chatham Publishing	1-86176-015-9	1901
New Interpretations in Naval History - Selected Papers from the 8th Naval History Symposium	Cogar, William B. (ed)	Naval Institute Press	0-87021-495-0	1989
We stand on Guard	Colombo, John Robert and Richardson, Michael	Doubleday	0-385-25002-9	1985
Naval History of the United States, Volume 2	Cooper, James Fenimore	Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia		1839
Upper Canada The Formative Years 1784-1841	Craig, Gerald M.	McClelland and Stewart Limited		1963
Other War of 1812, The	Cusick, James G.	University of Florida Press	0-8130-2648-2	2003
Battle of Stonington, Torpedoes, submarines and rockets in the War of 1812	De Kay, james Tertius	Naval Institute Press	0-87021-279-6	1990
Gunfire on the Lakes	Douglas, W.A.B.	National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada		1977
Naval War of 1812, The, Vol 2, 1813	Dudley, William S.	Naval Historical Center, USN	0-945274-06-8	1985
Naval War of 1812, The, Vol 1, 1812	Dudley, William S.	Naval Historical Center, USN	85-600565	1985
Naval War of 1812, The, Vol 3, 1814-15	Dudley, William S. and Crawford, Michael J. (ed)	Naval Historical Center, USN	0-945274-47-5	2002
Coastal Maine, a maritime history	Duncan, Roger F	Countryman Press	0-88150-555-2	1992
An Able Seaman of 1812	Durand, James	New Haven		1926
The Fatal Cruise of the Argus : Two Captains in the War of 1812	Dye, Ira	Naval Institute Press	1-55750-175-0	1994
Ten Years of Upper Canada in Peace and War 1805-1815	Edgar, Matilda	William Briggs, Toronto		1890
Perry's Victory Centenary, The	Emerson (ed), George D.	J.B. Lyon Company		1916
American Maritime Heritage	Engle and Lott, Eloise and Arnold S	Naval Institute Press	0-87021-507-8	1975
Town of York 1815 - 1834, The	Firth, Edith G	University of Toronto Press		1966
Town of York 1793 - 1815, The	Firth, Edith G	University of Toronto Press		1962
Veteran of 1812, A, the life of James Fitzgibbon	Fitzgibbon, Mary Agnes	Coles		1894
Veteran of 1812, A	FitzGibbon, Mary Agnes	Prospero Books	1-55267-137-2	2000
Age of Fighting Sail, The	Forester, C.S.	Dodd, Mead and Co.	56-7741	1956
Jack Tars and Comodores: the American Navy 1783-1815	Fowler, William M Jr	Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston	0-395-35314-9	1984
Harpers atlas of american history	Fox, Dixon Ryan	Harper and Publishers		1920
Quebec 'twixt old and new	Gale, George	Telegraph Printing Co		1915
Naval War of 1812, The	Gardiner, Robert (ed), Malcomson, Robert, Lambert, David and Morriss, Roger	Caxton Editions, Chatham Publishing	1-84067-3605	1998
Republic's Private Navy, The: The American Privateering Business As Practiced by Baltimore During the War of 1812	Garitee, Jerome R.	Wesleyan University Press	0-8195-5004-3	1977
Danger at Niagara	Goff Clark, Margaret	Funk and Wagnalls	68-27995	1968
Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay	Gough, Barry	Vanwell Publishing	1-55068-114-1	2002
Empire of the North Atlantic	Graham, Gerald S	University of Toronto Press		1950
Captain of old Ironsides	Grant, Bruce	Pellegrini and Cudahy		1947
History of Canada - Ontario High School	Grant, W.L.	T. Eaton and Co		1914
Where right and glory lead	Graves, Donald E	Robin Brass	1-896941-03-6	1993
Field of Glory	Graves, Donald E.	Robin Brass	1-896941-10-9	1999
Merry Hearts make light days	Graves, Donald E. (ed)	Carleton University Press	0-88629-225-5	1994
Our Naval Heritage	Green, Fitzhugh	Century		1925
Annals of the War, The	Harper, J.M.	Musson Book Co Ltd		nd
Long ships passing, The	Havighurst, Walter	Macmillan		1942
Encyclopedia of the War of 1812	Heidler, David S. and Jeanne T. (ed)	ABC-CLIO	0-87436-968-1	1997
War of 1812, The , A Forgotten Conflict	Hickey, Donald R.	University of Illinois Press	0-252-01613-0	1989
Incredible War of 1812, The	Hitsman, J. Mackay	University of Toronto Press	0-8020-6058-7	1965
War of 1812, The	Horsman, Reginald	Alfred A Knopf	68-23941	1969
Causes of the War of 1812	Horsman, Reginald	A.S. Barnes and Co	61-15201	1962
Tragic Commodore, The, Story of Oliver Hazard Perry	Hoyt, Edwin P	Abelard Schuman	66-10775	1966
Struggle for the Border	Hutchison, Bruce	Longmans, Green and Co		1955
War of 1812, A compact history	Jacobs and Tucker, J.R. and Genn	Hawthorn Books		1969
Naval History of Great Britain, Volume 6, 1811-1827	James, William M.	Conway Maritime Press	0-85177-910-7	2002
Every man will do his duty	King, Dean	Henry Holt and Company	0-8050-4806-9	1997
Journal of Major John Norton	Klinck, Carl F. and Talman, James J (eds)	Champlain Society		1970
America and the Sea: A Maritime History	Labaree, Benjamin W., Fowler, William M. Jr., Sloan, Edward W., Hattendorf, John B. , Safford, Jeffrey J. and German, Andrew W.	Mystic Seaport	0-913372-81-1	1998
War of 1812	Lawson, Don	Abelard Schuman	66-11893	1966
War of 1812, America's second War for Independence	Lawson, Don	Abelard Schuman	66-11893	1966
Canada, The foundations of its future	Leacock, Stephen	House of Seagram		1941
Voice from the Main Deck, A	Leech, Samuel	Chatham Pub	1 86176 113 9	1999
Seaway , The	Legget, Robert	Clarke, Irwin and Co	0-7720-1270-9	1979
War of 1812, The	Lossing, Benson J.	New Hampshire Publishing	0-912274-31-x	1868
Great battles of the British Navy	Low, Lt Charles R.	George Routledge and Sons		1872
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Lakes	Lyman, Olin L.	New Amsterdam Book Co		1905
Atlantic Provinces, The: the emergence of Colonial Society 1712-1857	MacNutt, W.S.	McC;lelland and Stewart		1965
Message from the president of the United States	Madison, James	Roger C. Weightman		1813
Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2	Mahan, Captain Alfred Thayer	Little, Brown and Co, Boston		1905
Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1	Mahan, Captain Alfred Thayer	Little, Brown and Co, Boston		1905
From Sail to Steam	Mahan, Captain Alfred Thayer	Harper and Brothers		1907
War of 1812, The	Mahon, John J.	University of Florida Press	0-8130-0318-0	1972
Warships of the Great Lakes	Malcomson, Robert	Chatham Publishing	1-55750-910-7	2001
Very Brilliant Afair, A	Malcomson, Robert	Robin Brass Studio, Toronto	1-896941-33-8	2003
Sailors of 1812	Malcomson, Robert	Old Fort Niagara Assn	0-941967-19-0	1997
Lords of the Lake	Malcomson, Robert	Naval Institute Press	1-55750-532-2	1998
War of 1812	May, George S	US Dept of Natural Resources		1962
Transactions of the Canadian Military Institute, Vol 1, 1890-1893	Mayne, Major, C.B.	Canadian Military Institute		1893
Municipality of Toronto, Canada - A history, Vol 1	Middleton, Jesse Edgar et al	Dominion Publishing Co, Toronto		1923
Our inland seas - their shipping and their commerce for three centuries	Mills, James C	A.C. McClurg and Co		1910
Commodore Isaac Hull, USN	Molloy, Leo T	Hull Book Fund		1964
Oxford History of the American People, The	Morison, Samuel Eliot	Oxford University Press, NY	65-12468	1965
Old Bruin, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry	Morison, Samuel Eliot	Little, Brown and Co		1967
History of the County of York, Ontario Vol 1	Mulvany, C.P., Adam G.M. et al	C. Blackett Robinson, Toronto		1885
Commodore's Boys, The	Orlob, Helen	Westminster Press	67-10559	1967
Man who burned the White House, The	Pack, James	Naval Institute Press	0-87021-420-9	1983
Broke and the Shannon	Padfield, Peter	Hodder & Staughton	340-02511-5	1968
Log of the Grand Turks, The	Peabody, Robert E	Houghton Mifflin Company		1926
Military Heroes of the War of 1812	Peterson, Charles J.	Jas. B. Smith and Co		1858
United States and World Sea Power	Potter, Cmdr E.B. (ed)	Prentice-Hall inc	55-9323	1955
Preble's Boys: commodore Preble and the birth of American sea power	Pratt, Fletcher	William Sloane Associates		1950
Navy, The - A History	Pratt, Fletcher	Garden City Publishing Co, NY		1938
Kingston before the War of 1812	Preston, Richard A	Champlain Society		1959
Eyes of the Fleet	Price, Anthony	W.W.Norton	0-393-03846-7	1990
Shannon and the Chesapeake, The	Pullen, Radm Hugh F	McClelland and Stewart		1970
Tecumseh, chronicle of the last great leader of his people	Raymond, Ethel T	University of Toronto Press		1964
Naval War of 1812, The, Part II	Roosevelt, Theodore	G.P. Putnam's Sons		1882
Naval War of 1812, The, Part I	Roosevelt, Theodore	G.P. Putnam's Sons		1882
Building of Perry's Fleet on Lake Erie 1812-1813	Rosenberg, Max	Pennsylvania Hostorical and Museum Commission	0-911124-54-3	1987
Maritime History of Maine: Three Centuries of Shipbuilding and Seafaring, The	Rowe, William Hutchinson	W.W. Norton and Co		1948
Buffalo Historical Society, Vol VI	Severance, Frank H (ed)	Buffalo HS		1903
Bound for battle	Shepard, Betty	Harcourt, Brace and world	67-18891	1967
Signal Victory, A	Skaggs & Altoff, David & Gerard	Naval Institute Press	1-55750-030-4	1997
Oswego, New York and the War of 1812	Slosek, Anthony M	Heritage Foundation of Oswego	89-19838	1989
Story of Nancy and other Eighteen-Twelvers, The	Snider, C.H.J.	McClelland and Stewart		1926
Under the Red Jack	Snider, C.H.J.	Musson Book Co Ltd		1928
Leaves From the War Log of the Nancy: 1813	Snider, C.H.J.	Rous and Mann Ltd.		1936
In the wake of the eighteen twelvers	Snider, C.H.J.	Bell and Cockburn		1913
Glorious Shannon's old Blue Duster, The	Snider, C.H.J.	McClelland and Stewart		1923
Romance of Boston Bay, The	Snow, Edward Rowe	Yankee Publishing Co		1944
Age of Sails, The, Book 2,	Southworth, John Van Duyn	Twayne Pyblishers, NY		1968
Storm Canvas	Sperry, Armstrong	Holt, Finehart and Winston	44-5270	1944
War of 1812 in connection with the Army Bill Act	Stevenson, James	W. Foster Brown and Co Montreal		1892
Rowboat War, The	Swayze, Fred	MacMillan Company		1965
History of the war of the United States with Great Britain in 1812 and of the War with Mexico	Thomson, John Lewis	J.B. Lippincott		1887
HMS St. Lawrence	Townsend, Robert B.	Odyssey Publishing	0-9683798-2-6	1998
British generals in the War of 1812	Turner, Wesley B	McGills Queens University Press	0-7735-1832-0	1999
A Narrative of the Affair of Queenstown: in the War of 1812	Van Rensselaer, Solomon	Leavitt, Lord and Co, NY		1836
America - Great crises in our history told by its makers: Vol V 1812, before and after	Veterans of foreign wars	Americanization Department		1925
Narative verse satire in maritime Canada 1779-1814	Vincent, Thomas B	Tecumseh Press	0-919662-64-1	1978
A History of the Canadian Peoples	Wallace, WM. Stewart	Copp Clark Company, Ltd.		1930
Yankee Journals, The	Wanderer, A.	MacMillan Company	67-24289	1967
Reign of George III 1760-1815	Watson, J. Steven	Clarendon Press, Oxford		1960
Day of Crysler's Farm, the	Way, Ronald L.	St Lawrence Parks Commission		1980
Old Fort henry, The Citadel of Upper Canada	Way, Ronald L.	St Lawrence Parks Commission		1986
New England blockaded 1814 - the Journal of Henry Edward Napier, Lieutenant in HMS Nymphe	Whitehill, Walter Muir (ed)	Peabody Museum, Salem		1939
War with the United States, The	Wood, Willam	University of Toronto Press		1964
Select British Documents from the Canadian War of 1812: Vol 3 part 2	Wood, Willam	Champlain Society		1922
Select British Documents from the Canadian War of 1812: Vol 3 Part 1	Wood, Willam	Champlain Society		1922
Select British Documents from the Canadian War of 1812: Vol 2	Wood, Willam	Champlain Society		1922
Select British Documents from the Canadian War of 1812: Vol 1	Wood, Willam	Champlain Society		1922
All afloat	Wood, Willam	Glasgow, Brook and Co		1915
All afloat	Wood, Willam	Glasgow, Brook and Co, Toronto		1914
Flag and Fleet	Wood, Willam	MacMillan Company		1919
Tecumseh	Wylie, Betty Jane	Black Moss Press	0-88753-091-5	1982
Defended Border, The	Zaslow, Morris (ed)	Macmillan Company of Canada		1964
Impressment of American Seamen	Zimmerman, James Fulton	Kennikat	65-27121	1925

The following periodical/magazine articles were generously donated by their author, Robert Malcomson, in the cases where we do not have the original journal already in our collections.

Title	Publisher	Description	Vol	Year	Month
War on the Lakes	The Beaver	Magazine Article		1990	April/May
Controversial relationships among the British before and after the Battle of Lake Erie	Vanwell Publishishing		46	1990	Fall
H.M.S. Detroit 1813	Maritime Review	Magazine Article		1991	January/February
The Hamilton	Scale Ship Modeller	Magazine Article		1991	Faebruar/March
The Capture of the Schooner	The American Neptune		51	1991	Spring
Niagara Sails Again	Naval History	Magazine Article	5	1991	Summer
The crews of the british squadron at Put-in Bay (Part1)				1991	Fall
H.M.S. St. Lawrence	Ships in Scale	Magazine Article	5	1994	January/February
The crews of the british squadron at Put-in Bay (Part2)	Inland Seas	Magazine Article	51	1995	Fall
Xebecs for the Great Lakes War		Magazine Article		1996	May/ June
George Inglis		Short Story	21	1996
War on Lake Onatrio	The Beaver	Magazine Article		1995	April/May
The Tecumseth Sails Again	Maritime Magazine	Magazine Article		1997	Spring
USS Constitution	Military Technical Journal	Magazine Article	12	1997	August
HMS St. Lawrence: The Freshwater First-Rate	Mariners Mirror	Magazine Article	83	1997	November
The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum And Gondola Philadelphia	Model Ship Builder	Magazine Article	14	1997	November/December
Letter		Letter		2000	16-Jul

The above represents part of our holdings on this subject - these books are all available for consultation - some of the older titles may be handled only by a Curator, or by a Member who has received approved training in the handling of archival material. Engravings, paintings and charts are not listed.

Below is further reading that we may not currently hold on our shelves. [Note June 2010: a very quick review indicates we now have titles marked ** . We would like to thank all members and donors who assisted. Donations of missing titles, retained here as part of our bibliographic record, would be appreciated.]

Beirne, Francis F. The War of 1812. New York: Dutton, 1949. 410 pp.

** Bird, Harrison. Navies in the Mountains: The Battles on the Waters of Lake Champlain and Lake George, 1609-1814. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1962. 361 pp.

Brown, Wilburt S. The Amphibious Campaign for West Florida and Louisiana, 1814-1815: A Critical Review of Strategy and Tactics at New Orleans. University: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1969. 233 pp.

Byron, Gilbert. The War of 1812 on the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1964. 94 pp.

** Cooper, James Fenimore. Ned Myers; or, a Life Before the Mast. With annotations by W. S. Dudley. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989. 285 pp.

Cranwell, John P., and William B. Crane. Men of Marque: A History of Private Armed Vessels Out of Baltimore During the War of 1812. New York: Norton, 1940. 427 pp.

** Dillon, Richard. We Have Met the Enemy: Oliver Hazard Perry, Wilderness Commodore. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. 231pp.

Drake, Frederick C. "Commodore Sir James Yeo and Governor General George Prevost: A Study in Command Relations, 1813-14." In New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers From the Eighth Naval History Symposium, edited by William B. Cogar, 156-171. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989.

Dudley, William S. "Commodore Isaac Chauncey and U.S. Joint Operations on Lake Ontario, 1813-14." In New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers From the Eighth Naval History Symposium, edited by William B. Cogar, 139-155. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989.

Dudley, William S. "Naval Historians and the War of 1812." Naval History 4 (Spring 1990): 52-57.

** Dutton, Charles J. Oliver Hazard Perry. New York: Longmans, Green, 1935. 308 pp.

Eckert, Edward K. The Navy Department in the War of 1812. Univ. of Florida Social Sciences Monograph, No. 48. Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Press, 1973. 77 pp.

Eller, Ernest M., William J. Morgan, and Richard M. Basoco. Sea Power and the Battle of New Orleans. New Orleans: Landmark Society, 1965. 48 pp.

Everest, Allan S. The War of 1812 in the Champlain Valley. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1981. 239 pp.

** Garitee, Jerome R. The Republic's Private Navy: The American Privateering Business as Practiced by Baltimore During the War of 1812. The American Maritime Library, Vol. 8. Middletown, Conn.: Published for Mystic Seaport by Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1977. 356 pp.

Gleaves, Albert. James Lawrence, Captain, United States Navy, Commander of the "Chesapeake". New York: Putnam, 1904. 337 pp.

** Grant, Bruce. Isaac Hull, Captain of Old Ironsides. Chicago: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1947. 418 pp.

Hull, Isaac. Commodore Hull; Papers of Isaac Hull, Commodore, United States Navy. Edited by Gardner W. Allen. Boston: The Boston Athenaeum, 1929. 341 pp.

Jones, Noah. Journals of Two Cruises Aboard the American Privateer Yankee, by a Wanderer. New York: Macmillan, 1967. 156 pp.

Long, David F. Nothing Too Daring: A Biography of Commodore David Porter, 1780-1843. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1970. 396 pp.

Long, David F. Ready to Hazard: A Biography of Commodore William Bainbridge, 1774-1833. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England; distributed by University Microfilms International, 1981. 359 pp.

** Long, David F. Sailor-Diplomat: A Biography of Commodore James Biddle, 1783-1848. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1983. 312 pp.

** Lossing, Benson J. Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812. New York: Harper, 1868. 1084 pp. [facs.]

McClellan, Edwin N. "The Navy at the Battle of New Orleans." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 50 (December 1924): 2041-2060.

** Mahan, Alfred T. Sea Power in Its Relation to the War of 1812. Boston: Little, Brown, 1905. 2 vols. (Reprinted 1968 by Greenwood; 1970 by Haskell).

Mackenzie, Alexander S. Life of Stephen Decatur, a Commodore in the Navy of the United States. Boston: Little, Brown, 1846. 443 pp.

** Maloney, Linda M. The Captain From Connecticut: The Life and Naval Times of Isaac Hull. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1986. 549 pp.

Maloney, Linda M. "The War of 1812: What Role for Sea Power?" In In Peace and War: Interpretations of American Naval History, 1775-1984, 2d ed., edited by Kenneth J. Hagan, 46-62. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1984.

Mills, James C. Oliver Hazard Perry and the Battle of Lake Erie. Detroit: J. Phelps, 1913. 278 pp.

Muller, Charles G. The Darkest Day: 1814; The Washington- Baltimore Campaign. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963. 232 pp.

** Pack, James. The Man Who Burned the White House: Admiral Sir George Cockburn, 1772-1853. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1987. 288 pp.

** Poolman, Kenneth. Guns Off Cape Ann: The Story of the Shannon and the Chesapeake. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1962. 175 pp.

Porter, David. Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean, by Captain David Porter, in the United States Frigate Essex, in the Years 1812, 1813, and 1814. New York: Wiley & Halstead, 1815. 2 vols. (Reprinted 1970 by Gregg).

Shomette, Donald G. Flotilla: Battle for the Patuxent. Solomons, Md.: Calvert Marine Museum Press, 1981. 257 pp.

Skaggs, David Curtis. "Joint Operations During the Detroit- Lake Erie Campaign, 1813." In New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers From the Eighth Naval History Symposium, edited by William B. Cogar, 121-138. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989.