Excerpt from The Naval War of 1812, Vol. 1: The History of the United States Navy During, the Last War With Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Naval History of the United States. The latter gives the American view of the cruises and battles; but it is much less of an authority than James's, both because it is written without great regard for exact ness, and because all figures for the American side need to be supplied from Lieutenant (now Admiral) George E. Emmons's statistical History of the United States Navy, which is the third of the Works in question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.