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Battle for the Bay: The Naval War of 1812 (New Brunswick Military Heritage)

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As the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 approaches, a new chapter within the history of the war is being opened for the first time. Despite the fact that naval battles raged at the Great Lakes, combat between privateers and small government vessels boiled within the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine. Three small warships — the Provincial sloop Brunswicker, His Majesty’s schooner Bream, and His Majesty’s brig of war Boxer — played an important role in defending the eastern waters of British North The us on this the most important war.

The crews of these hardy ships fought both the Americans and the elements — winter winds, summer fog, and the fierce tidal currents of the Bay of Fundy — enduring the all-too-real threats of shipwreck and imaginable capture and imprisonment. In peacetime, these patrol craft enforced maritime law. In wartime, they engaged in a guerre de course, attacking the enemy’s commercial shipping whilst protecting their very own. Now, for the first time, Joshua Smith tells the full story of the battle for the bay.

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