Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (NHHC, viewed Dec. 9, 2021).
Contents
Part one : Strategy and operations. Chapter 1 : The Queen of France comes to America, 1778 -- Chapter 2 : The tale of the milk pail : vice Admiral Comte d'Estaing's strategic vision for the War of 1778 in America -- Part Two : Building a naval tradition. Chapter 3 : The invasion and defense of Canada in 1775 and 1776 : a new perspective from a new eyewitness account -- Chapter 4 : Poughkeepsie, the continental shipyards, and defense of the Hudson -- Part three : The Navy's image on paper and canvas. Chapter 5 : Samuel Eliot Morison's John Paul Jones : a sailor's biography, a retrospective appreciation -- Chapter 6 : The lasting influence of Theodore Roosevelt's Naval War of 1812 -- Chapter 7 : National ensigns in the Naval Art of the War of 1812 -- Chapter 8 : White-jacket and the Navy in which Melville served.
