THE AMPHIBIOUS CAMPAIGN FOR WEST FLORIDA AND LOUISIANA, 1814-1815; A CRITICAL REVIEW OF STRATEGY AND TACTICS AT NEW ORLEANS.

Brown, Wilburt S. [Wilburt Scott Brown], 1900-1968.

ISBN 10: 0817351000 / ISBN 13: 9780817351007

Published by University, AL [Tuscaloosa, AL]: University of Alabama Press, 1969., 1969

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First edition, first printing (with publisher's requisite statement for latter upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR'S WIDOW. xiv, 233 pages. Hardcover: H 26cm x L 17.5cm. Dust jacket well toned with light soiling and stains; several tears and some bumping at edges; front flap is not price-clipped. Blue cloth. Martha Brown's nine-line ink inscription date May 19, 1969 on front free endpaper; the book was published posthumously as Major General Wilburt S. Brown passed on December 13, 1968. Newspaper clipping from May 19, 1969 taped to rfep with another clipping from December 1969 taped to rear pastedown; also laid-in at rear endpapers is University of Alabama News Bureau press release promoting book's publication; additionally laid-in at front endpapers is brochure for May 1973 General Wilburt S. Brown Memorial History Conference at the University of Alabama. Interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. ISBN 0817351000.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE AMPHIBIOUS CAMPAIGN FOR WEST FLORIDA AND LOUISIANA, 1814-1815; A CRITICAL REVIEW OF STRATEGY AND TACTICS AT NEW ORLEANS.
• Publisher: University, AL [Tuscaloosa, AL]: University of Alabama Press, 1969.
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817351000
• ISBN 13: 9780817351007
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History

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Synopsis

“A retired major general of the Marine Corps offers here an interpretive history of the campaign culminating in the battle of New Orleans, based on a meticulous review of the sources and employing the perceptive of modern military doctrine. Written with a military regard for precision . . . [the book] nevertheless gathers force and even suspense though its emphasis on the importance f the events at hand . . [T]his is now probably the best book on the topic.”—Choice