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Article: Splintering the Wooden Wall: the British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- May 1, 2004
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Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815. By Wade G. Dudley. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. [xiv], 229. $32.95, ISBN 1-55750-167-X.)
The target of this book is Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, the naval historian and "sea power" strategist of the late nineteenth century. As a student of naval warfare in the age of Napoleon and Horatio Nelson, Mahan produced a detailed analysis of the Anglo-American war of 1812-1815. A large part of that struggle consisted of the British attempt to close the American coastline to maritime and naval traffic. Mahan interpreted the Royal Navy's blockade of the United States as highly ...