Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813016754 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 358 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Smith, professor of history at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, wrote Iron and Heavy Guns: Duel Between the Monitor and Merrimac; For the Purpose of Defense: The Politics of the Jeffersonian Gunboat Program, and is the coauthor of Filibusters and Expansionists: Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821. Editor Gene A.
Widely regarded as the best eyewitness account of the Battle of New Orleans, Arsene LaCarriere Latour's Historical Memoir records first-hand the dramatic events of the climactic military campaign of the War of 1812. Only months after the battle ended, Latour, who was General Andrew Jackson's principal army engineer, began interviewing witnesses and key participants in order to create a comprehensive record based on first-hand accounts. The work's most significant value derives from these accounts---of numerous individuals who participated in a crucial moment in history of the United States---reproduced in the book's appendix. As the first full-length treatment of the New Orleans campaign, the book also offers perceptive analysis of battle preparations, terrain, and strategy by the man who designed many of the American defenses. As a key figure in the conflict who knew many of the other main actors and personally collected their reports and observations, Latour provides a record which will never be replaced.. This revised and expanded edition includes a substantial new biographical introduction based on a group of manuscripts relating to the battle recently acquired from Latour's descendants in France. This new edition also includes nine three-color maps illustrating the course of the battle. Latour characterized it as a conflict, which preserved our country from c
More importanly, Smith has incorporated the changes that Latour planned for a second edition of his original memoir. Moreover, Smith ably demonstrates why Latour's account, written so soon after the fight for the Crescent City, should be taken as an essential interpretation of the New Orleans campaign, especially regarding American perceptions of the consequences of the war. --Journal of Military History, Vol 64, #3 . Smith's extensive research makes Latour more than an indefinite name attached to a chronicle of the dim past. Latour is not as self-serving as he might have been, and his latest editor has taken some care in an extensive introduction to alert the reader about Latour's life and purpose. It is an important resource for understanding the chaotic and occasionally haphazard org
First rate book from a first rate authority Kevin William Chambers Being a student of the War of 1812 and of the Battle of New Orelans in particular I eagerly awaited the delivery of this book. The book has four main parts; firstly, the atlas; second, Gene Smith's introduction; third, the extensive appendices; fourth, the narrative or memoir.The atlas (actually a series of maps in a seperate docket showing the contemporary battlefields and approaches used by the US and British forces)is worth the cost of the book alone. Coming as it does from Latour's hand, Jackson's principal military engineer, it is, put sim