Further Reading


  • Albright, Harry.New Orleans: Battle of the Bayous. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1990.
  • Antal, Sandy.A Wampum Denied: Procter’s War of 1812. Toronto: Carleton University Press, 1997.
  • Borneman, Walter R.1812: The War That Forged a Nation. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.
  • DeGrummond, Jane Lucas.The Baratarians and the Battle of New Orleans.Baton Rouge, La.: Legacy, 1979.
  • Everest, Allan S.The War of 1812 in the Champlain Valley. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1981.
  • Fitz-Enz, David G.The Final Invasion: Plattsburgh, the War of 1812’s Most Decisive Battle. Edited by John R. Elting. Foreword by Sir Christopher Prevost. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001.
  • George, Christopher T.Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay. Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Books, 2000.
  • Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler.The War of 1812. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.
  • Hickey, Donald R.The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
  • Hitsman, J. Mackay.The Incredible War of 1812: A Military History. Rev. ed. Foreword by Sir Christopher Prevost. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 1999.
  • Horsman, Reginald.The War of 1812. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.
  • Lord, Walter.The Dawn’s Early Light. New York: W. W. Norton, 1972.
  • Muller, Charles G.The Darkest Day: The Washington-Baltimore Campaign During the War of 1812. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
  • Patterson, Benton Rain.The Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, and the Road to the Battle of New Orleans. New York: New York University Press, 2005.
  • Pitch, Anthony S.The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
  • Quimby, Robert S.The U.S. Army in the War of 1812: An Operational and Command Study. 2 vols. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1997.
  • Reilly, Robin.The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812. New York: Putnam, 1974.
  • Remini, Robert.The Battle of New Orleans. New York: Viking, 1999.
  • Sheads, Scott S.The Rockets’ Red Glare: The Maritime Defense of Baltimore in 1814. Centreville, Md.: Tidewater, 1986.
  • Skaggs, David Curtis, and Gerard T. Altoff.A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812–1813. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
  • Stagg, J. C. A.Mr. Madison’s War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783–1830. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983.
  • Stanley, George F. G.The War of 1812: Land Operations. Toronto: Macmillan, 1983.
  • Sweetman, Jack, ed.Great American Naval Battles. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
  • Turner, Wesley B.British Generals in the War of 1812: High Command in the Canadas. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999.
  • Welsh, William Jeffrey, and David Curtis Skaggs, eds.War on the Great Lakes. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991.