Bøger om År 1810 til 1819

Der Autor reagiert mit dem Buch auf das anhaltende Interesse an der Reiseliteratur um 1800 ¿ einer Zeit, in der Mobilität für die Menschen immer wichtiger wurde. Es gab eine zunehmende Zahl von Reisenden aller Couleur, und nicht wenige verspürten das Bedürfnis, ihre Erfahrungen der Öffentlichkeit mitzuteilen. Dabei bedienten sie sich ganz unterschiedlicher Ausdrucksformen: Die Bandbreite reichte vom wissenschaftlichen Bericht bis zur romanesken Schilderung. Der Band zeigt, wie facettenreich sich das Genre zwischen 1770 und 1830 entwickelte und wie komplex das Zusammenspiel zwischen Reise, deren literarischer Bearbeitung und Veröffentlichung in einer Zeit des gesellschaftlichen Wandels war.

"The formidable Dartmoor Prison was the first permanent facility for prisoners of war on British soil. Known as the "hated cage," American captives-Black and white-from the War of 1812 languished in it for years, even after the war ended, stewing in frustration and rage. Although the prisoners had been racially integrated as sailors on American naval ships, Dartmoor became deeply segregated, like the United States itself. Then, on April 6, 1815, a minor flashpoint between the prisoners and the guards turned into a massacre, as guards opened fire. Nine Americans were killed, and dozens injured. It was the last time Britons intentionally killed Americans in a war-and it also led to the prisoners developing a shared national identity that began to trump their racial differences. The Hated Cage provides astonishing insight into the War of 1812, a conflict which proved embarrassing to both sides, by illuminating the tensions between a massive power with a foothold still in the Americas and the upstart nation desperate for true sovereignty. Celebrated historian Nicholas Guyatt brings to vivid life the forgotten story of how these prisoners came into British custody and of how they negotiated and renegotiated their racial identities as they faced a common enemy. Drawing on extensive material from archives in Britain and the United States, The Hated Cage reveals how, in unlikely and dire circumstances, the men trapped within Dartmoor came together to chart a new sense of themselves-as Americans"--

Fleeing England, a mysterious young woman named Emily risks the Atlantic during the War of 1812 for a new adventure in Canada. She never arrives. Deadly sea battles with Americans and a ship's captain hell-bent on revenge make her crossing treacherous, terrifying, and, should her true identity be revealed, tragic.

This exciting account of the War of 1812 is told through the stories of the heroes who helped defend Canada, people such as Mohawk chief John Norton and Red George Macdonnell. With descriptions of the battle at Lundy's Lane, the adventures of the Sea Wolves, and the antics of James Fitzgibbon, the War of 1812 is revealed as it has seldom been seen.

December 1814: its economy in tatters, its capital city of Washington, D.C., burnt to the ground, a young America was again at war with the militarily superior English crown. With an enormous enemy armada approaching New Orleans, two unlikely allies teamed up to repel the British in one of the greatest battles ever fought in North America.The defense of New Orleans fell to the backwoods general Andrew Jackson, who joined the raffish French pirate Jean Laffite to command a ramshackle army made of free blacks, Creole aristocrats, Choctaw Indians, gunboat sailors and militiamen. Together these leaders and their scruffy crew turned back a British force more than twice their number. Offering an enthralling narrative and outsized characters, Patriotic Fire is a vibrant recounting of the plots and strategies that made Jackson a national hero and gave the nascent republic a much-needed victory and surge of pride and patriotism.