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English
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The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Disaster in various guises awaits them in the Great South Sea and in the far reaches of the Pacific: typhoons, castaways, shipwrecks, murder, and criminal insanity.
Author
Series
Free men and dreamers volume 2
Language
English
Description
Five families are caught up in the tumult of the War of 1812.
Author
Series
Free men and dreamers volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
A historical fiction surrounding the years after the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812. Free people who dream and pursue what liberty and independence should be for their families lives.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
"Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada, 1812. Struggling alone on the family farm, Abigail Tidwell knows exactly who is to blame for her hardships: the Americans. If it weren't for their part in the war, her father and brothers would be home rather than fighting abroad. But no amount of antipathy could have prepared her for the shocking sight of a wounded American soldier on her property, a man in dire need of her help. Grudgingly, Abigail tends to the soldier's...
Author
Series
Little house. The Charlotte years volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Living with her family near Boston, five-year-old Charlotte Tucker, who would grow up to become the grandmother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, feels the effects of the War of 1812.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Caroline 1812 volume 5
American girls collection [Caroline] volume 5
American girls 1812 volume 5
American girls collection [Caroline] volume 5
American girls 1812 volume 5
Publisher
American Girls
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
As a battle rages in her own village, Caroline faces a terrible choice.
14) 1812
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The war of 1812 would either make America a global power sweeping all the way to the Pacific--or break it into small pieces bound to mighty England. It was a second revolution of sorts to prove to the British that America had to be taken seriously. The principal actors in this drama were James and Dolley Madison, and Andrew and Rachel Jackson. Their courage and determination would shape America's destiny.
Author
Series
Little house. The Charlotte years volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences over the course of a year of five-year-old Charlotte Tucker, who would grow up to become the grandmother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, living with her family in Roxbury, Massachusetts, during the war of 1812.
17) The flag maker
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.
19) Broken days
Author
Series
Quilt trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
In 1811, life with her Aunt Hannah in Salem, Massachusetts, becomes even more difficult for fourteen-year-old Ebie with the arrival of a half-Indian girl who claims to be the daughter of Hannah's sister, Thankful, and with the threat of impending war.
Author
Series
Prelude to glory volume 9
Publisher
Bookcraft
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
The Americans had stunned the world by winning their independence from the mightiest military power on earth and creating a startling new constitution that vested ultimate power in the common man. No one had anticipated that, by the 1790s, the giants of the world -- England France, Spain and Russia -- would again be caught up in war, with the United States trapped in the middle.
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