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Article: Historical Dictionary of the War of 1812.(Book review)
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- Ontario History
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- September 22, 2006
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Historical Dictionary of the War of 1812.
By Robert Malcomson. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2006. lxii + 701 pp. US $125.00 hardcover. ISBN 0-8108-5499-6.
The bicentennial of the War of 1812 is rapidly approaching. Indeed, the two-hundredth anniversary of the Chesapeake-Leopard incident, which greatly increased maritime and political tensions between the United States and Great Britain, occurs in June of 2007. Five years from that month will mark two hundred years since the United States declared war, setting off a conflict that would be played out world-wide at sea and along the coasts of North America but focus its greatest intensity on Canada ...