The Greatest Fury
The Battles for New Orleans and the Rebirth of America
[New York, New York] : Caliber, [2019]
Format: Book
Description: viii, 496 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"From master historian William C. Davis, the definitive story of the Battle of New Orleans, the fight that decided the ultimate fate not only of the War of 1812 but the future course of the fledgling American republic"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
A Spot on the Globe -- "Bloody Noses There Will Be" -- "By the Gods I Think You Will Have Warm Work" -- "One of the Most Brilliant Things on Record" -- "The American States are Doomed" -- Treachery Opens a Way -- "By the Eternal! I'll Fight Them Tonight." -- "Fury and Confusion" -- "The Best Fought Action in the Annals of Military Warfare" -- "Cannon and Batteries are its Proper Defence" -- "I am Now on the Move" -- "Giving Us the Whole Campaign" -- "Thunder, and Smoke, and Slaughter" -- "The Necessity of Doing Something" -- "Strike Our Foes with Fear" -- "We Await Our Fate" -- "We Shall Have A Warm Day" -- "A Spectacle of Carnage" -- "The Greatest Fury" -- "All Fear is at an End." -- "The Finger of Heaven was in this Thing" -- "Rescued is Orleans from the English Wolves" -- "Who Would Not be an American?".
Subjects:
New Orleans, Battle of, New Orleans, La., 1815.
United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Campaigns.
New Orleans, Battle of, New Orleans, La., 1815.
United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Campaigns.
ISBN:
9780399585227
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY War 1812 Dav | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-485) and index.