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Lion in the Bay : the British invasion of the Chesapeake, 1813-14 /Stanley L. Quick with Chipp Reid. "The story of Fort McHenry's defense during the War of 1812 is well known, but Lion in the Bay is an intimate look at the events leading up to the battle that inspired our national anthem. As the War of 1812 raged on the high seas and along the Canadian border, the British decided to strike at the heart of the United States, the relatively undefended area of the Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake was a fertile farm region, a place of renowned shipbuilding, and an area politically divided over the war. Plus, if the British succeeded in taking the bay, the nation's capital was not far away. Admiral George Cockburn led the British into the bay following a failed attempt to take Norfolk, Virginia. Originally intended to relieve pressure on other fronts, the Chesapeake theater became a British campaign of retribution for the burning of York (present day Toronto) by the Americans in 1812. As a result, the Chesapeake region, once an economic engine for America, was transformed into a region of terrorized citizens, destroyed farms, and fears of slave insurrection. In August 1814, President James Madison refused to bolster the defenses on the waterway that led to Washington, and the British took advantage. Cockburn again led a naval force into the bay, this time running into opposition from Commo. Joshua Barney and his Chesapeake Bay Flotilla. Barney put up a heroic, though doomed fight before the British sailed up the Patuxent River and landed at Benedict, Maryland, where over 4,000 troops disembarked to begin their advance toward Washington, D.C. After defeating the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg, the British moved into Washington, burning the city, before returning to their boats and setting out for Baltimore. There, the British armada encountered a stalwart group of American defenders at Fort McHenry. Despite a massive bombardment, Baltimore's defenses held, forcing the British to abandon their campaign to close the Chesapeake. More than just an in-depth look at one front of the War of 1812, Lion in the Bay is a story of resilience and triumph in the wake of catastrophe."--Provided by the publisher. 2015 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1813/1814"(42:73)

The elements and practice of rigging, seamanship, and naval tactics in four volumes : Vol. 1 ; the art of making masts, yards, gaffs, booms, blocks and oars. Steel, David, 1800. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12.014.2

The globe encircled and the world revealed / Ursula Lamb. Lamb, Ursula. 1995. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4

Britain and the China trade 1635-1842 This multi-volume work covers Britain's commercial operations in India from 1695-1842, with particular focus on meetings between British diplomats and Chinese officials in 1793 and 1816. It is designed to combine early works on the subject and significant relevant primary sources for reference use. The first five volumes consist of Hosea Ballou Morse's Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China, 1635-1834, included for its significant transcription work of records from the India Office. Volume VI is a reprint of The Crucial Years of Early Anglo-Chinese relations, 1750-1800 by E H Pritchard, a later study that used Morse's statistics. Volume IX is Michael Greenberg's British Trade and the Opening of China 1800-42. The remaining volumes are a collection of relevant primary sources. Volumes VII and VIII examine the Macartney embassy of 1792 from different angles; Volume VII contains instructions issued to Macartney by the East India Company; Volume VIII is Macartney's private journal of the embassy. Finally, Volume X is Notes of Proceedings and Occurences During the British embassy to Pekin in 1816 by Sir George Thomas Staunton. 2000 • BOOK • 10 copies available. 382(42:51)"1635/1842"

The letters of George & Elizabeth Bass / Miriam Estensen. In August 1800, George Bass returned to England after five years in the British colony of New South Wales. Gifted, ambitious and impatient with the limitations of a naval career, he took leave from the navy to purchase a ship of his own and organise a commercial venture to Sydney. He also met Elizabeth Waterhouse, and fell very much in love. They were married on 8 October 1800. On 9 January 1801, George Bass sailed for Australia. For the next two years, and across two oceans, letters were the only link between George and Elizabeth Bass. His were brief, dashed across the page with an impatient hand, embedded with tantalising references to his life at sea or the colony of New South Wales and filled with love for his wife. Hers were many pages of small, neat script with news of her friends and family, her own thoughts and pursuits, and her yearning for a husband who would never return. The separate worlds in which George and Elizabeth lived also come to life in their letters: an England of domestic chatter and streets filled with soldiers awaiting a Napoleonic invasion; the hot humid coastal towns of Brazil, where Bass sought to sell his merchandise and took on board firewood, fresh water and tobacco; Sydney society and the disappointment of the ladies in Elizabeth not having come with her husband to join their small social circle; the exotic and languid Pacific islands where trade was difficult and ship labour hard. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BASS

Pacific histories : ocean, land, people /edited by David Armitage and Alison Bashford. "The first comprehensive account to place the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Ocean into the perspective of world history. A distinguished international team of historians provides a multidimensional account of the Pacific, its inhabitants and the lands within and around it over 50,000 years, with special attention to the peoples of Oceania. It providing chronological coverage along with analyses of themes such as the environment, migration and the economy; religion, law and science; race, gender and politics."--Provided by the publisher. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 930.85(728.57)

The magnetism of Antarctica : the Ross expedition 1839-1843 /John Knight. "This under-documented expedition was a pivotal moment in the annals of polar exploration and was the starting point, in historical terms, of revealing the great unknown continent of Antarctica. It was the first time in nearly 70 years, since Captain James Cook had circumnavigated Antarctica, that a Royal Naval voyage of discovery had ventured so far south. They set a new 'furthest south' record in the process beating the one set up by James Weddell in a whaling ship in 1823. The expedition set sail from Greenwich in 1839. It consisted of two wooden sailing ships commanded by Captain James Clark Ross and Commander Francis Crozier. The ships were manned exclusively by Royal Naval personnel and each ship had a complement of 64 men and officers. Their primary task was of a scientific nature to study the Earth's magnetic field and build up a set of results that could provide a greater understanding of the effects of magnetism on compasses and their use in navigating the world's oceans. This voyage had a set of planned targets and all were accomplished. In the process a vast amount of scientific information was collected. Many exotic places were visited during the voyage amongst them Madeira, St. Helena, Cape Town, Kerguelen Island, New Zealand, Australia and the Falkland Islands but the pinnacle was the discovery of the Ross Sea, the Ross Ice Shelf and the mighty volcanoes of Erebus and Terror (named after the two ships). The crews experienced the dangers of navigating in ice-strewn waters and narrowly escaping being crushed by icebergs. Illness was kept at bay although several lives were lost due to accidents. It would be another 60 years before the scenes of their greatest discoveries were visited again and then the Golden Age of Discovery was ushered in with the likes of Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Svensk kustsjèofart 1840-1940 : passagerar- och lastêangfartyg i annonserad linjefart under 100 êar. Fartyg, rederier och linjer Olsson, Carl-Gunnar 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.2(485)"1840-1949"

The Spirit of marine law : or compendium of the statutes relating to the Admiralty, being a concise ... abridgment of all the acts relative to navigation Maxwell, John Irving 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:347.79

A new, concise, and correct operation for clearing the apparent distance of the moon from a star of the sun of the effects of refraction and parallax. Clarke, H 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.

A treatise on magnetism, in theory and practice, with original experiments Cavallo, Tiberius, 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:537.6

Byegone Rye harbour This is one of a series of local history items concerning Rye in East Sussex, produced by the Thomas Peacocke School Local History Group. This volume (18) deals with Rye Harbour. There is a short history of the Harbour from 1800-1840, followed by personal memories of local residents, and lists of harbour dues from the 19th century onwards. The book is illustrated with a few black and white line drawings. 1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.2(422.5)

Admiral Nelson and Joseph Haydn Admiral Nelson and Emma Hamilton spent two months in Austria and Hungary in 1800; during that time Nelson met the composer Joseph Haydn. Haydn wrote a Nelson Mass and other works including a Nelson Aria and the Ode by Miss Knight, upon which the Aria was based. This book gives the historical and political background in Austria and Hungary at that time. 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 78.071.1:92

The naval guardian Fletcher, Charles 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:355.124(42)"18"(088.3)

An epitome of astronomy, with the new discoveries : including an account of the eidouranion or transparent orrery Walker, W 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094 <EXTI Philosophical Tracts:529.78

The Polynesians : prehistory of an island people /Peter Bellwood Bellwood, Peter 1978. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 996

The narrative of Mr John Soren, a native of the United States of America, piratically captured on the high seas, in requital for an act of humanity, in saving a British transport, with near 300 troops on board, from sinking ... Soren, John 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:341.362.15(261)"1795"

A treatise on the commerce and police of the river Thames : containing an historical view of the trade of the port of London : and suggesting means for preventing the depredations thereon, by a legislative system of river police ... Colquhoun, Patrick, 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:351.749.2(282.242.1)

Romanticism and colonialism : writing and empire, 1780-1830 /edited by Tim Fulford and Peter J. Kitson. "The relationships between literary discourse and colonial politics have been the subject of much critical investigation since the publication of Edward Said's orientalism. Yet although much has been written about the forms these relationships took in the early modern period and in the nineteenth century, the Romantic period has been comparatively neglected. This volume sets out to redress that imbalance by investigating Romantic writing in its relationship to the peoples and places with which the British were increasingly coming into contact. Topics examined include slavery, race, climate, tropical disease, religion and commodity production; a wide range of writers are discussed from Edmund Burke to Hannah More, William Blake to Phyllis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano to Mary Shelley, Thomas Clarkson to Lord Byron. Together the essays constitute a broad assessment of Romanticism's engagement with India, Africa, the West Indies, South America and the Middle East."--Provided by the publisher. 1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.36

New interpretations in naval history : selected papers from the eighteenth McMullen Naval History Symposium held at the United States Naval Academy 19-20 September 2013 /edited by Lori Lyn Bogle and James C. Rentfrow. McMullen Naval History Symposium 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"17/19"

Granville Stapylton : Australia Felix 1836 : Second in command to Major Mitchell /Gregory C. Eccleston. "Granville Stapylton Australia Felix 1836 Second-in-command to Major Mitchell is based on the true journals of the pioneer land surveyor Granville Stapylton when he accompanied Major Thomas Mitchell on the famous 'Australia Felix' expedition in 1836, as his second-in-command. This expedition proceeded down the Lachlan, Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers into far western New South Wales, before crossing into what is now Victoria and proceeded south past the Grampians to the coast at Portland, before returning via Mount Macedon to the settled areas near Gundagai. Their continuous survey traverse from Boree (near Molong) to Jugiong (near Gundagai), via south-west Victoria, was found to have a commendably small misclosure of 13/4 miles. Stapylton's journals clarify when and where several natural history discoveries were made, including that of the now extinct Pig-footed Bandicoot, the now extinct White-footed Rabbit-rat, and the first-ever sighting of an australite. Stapylton's journals also describe several first contacts with the indigenous people, the sometimes-fraught relationship between himself and Mitchell, and Stapylton's concern for the welfare of the young girl Ballandella, whom Mitchell took home to raise with his family: one of the first instances of the 'stolen generation'. Being of the aristocracy, Stapylton found it hard to fraternise with the convicts in the team, but by the end of the expedition he had warmed to them sufficiently to praise them for always treating Turandurey (the female in the party) with respect. The book later describes the attack on Stapylton's survey camp in far north-eastern New South Wales, inland from Mount Warning, in 1840, resulting in the murder of Stapylton and one of his men. The farcical criminal trial in Sydney in 1841 is described in detail, with the men adjudged guilty being brought back to the infant Brisbane Town to be publicly hanged from the vanes of the windmill. Also revealed is Mitchell's assuming responsibility for Stapylton's baby son, including his care and schooling until he was old enough to become employed."--Dust Jacket 2018. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92STAPYLTON

A Narrative of the building and a description of the construction of the Edystone lighthouse with stone : to which is subjoined, an appendix, giving some account of the lighthouse on the Spurn Point Smeaton, John 1793 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:627.715(423.5)

Neueste beytrage zur erweiterung der sternkunde Schroter, Johann Hieronymus 1800 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 52.092:094

A geographical, historical and political description of the empire of Germany, Holland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Prussia, Italy, Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia: with a gazetteer of reference to the principle places in those countries Boetticher, J G 1800 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:914

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