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Title: Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812
Volume 2

Author: Alfred Thayer Mahan

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SEA POWER IN ITS RELATIONS
TO THE WAR OF
1812

BY

CAPTAIN A.T. MAHAN, D.C.L., LL.D.

_United States Navy_

AUTHOR OF "THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY, 1660-1783," "THE
INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
AND EMPIRE," "THE INTEREST OF AMERICA
IN SEA POWER," ETC.

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II

LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY
LIMITED

[Illustration: _From a Copley Print copyright 1899 by Curtis &
Cameron, Publishers, Boston._
_The Constitution_]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER IX

THE WINTER OF 1812-1813--BAINBRIDGE'S SQUADRON: ACTIONS BETWEEN
"CONSTITUTION" AND "JAVA," "HORNET" AND "PEACOCK"--INCREASING
PRESSURE ON ATLANTIC COAST
Page

Bainbridge's squadron sails