Mad for glory, a heart of darkness in the War of 1812, Robert Booth
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Mad for glory, a heart of darkness in the War of 1812, Robert Booth
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-235) and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Illustrations
illustrationsmaps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Mad for glory
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
932635695
Responsibility statement
Robert Booth
Sub title
a heart of darkness in the War of 1812
Summary
In October, 1812, as the U.S. frigate Essex ventured out against the British army, only one man had any idea that this cruise would turn into the strangest naval adventure in American history. That man was Captain David Porter, who had decided to run off with the navy's ship and its three hundred men to fight a separate Pacific war, one of privateering, pillaging, and orgies. Drawing on Porter's own writings and the accounts of eyewitnesses, the author recounts the events of a dark and fatal voyage in which David Porter crosses the line from commander to cult leader, from improbable fantasy to disastrous reality. --Publisher
Table Of Contents
Prologue -- Captain Porter -- Consul General Poinsett -- Against the gods -- Off the chart -- Revolution in Chile -- A new America -- Americans at war -- A-whaling -- Opotee in Nooaheevah -- Taipi -- Rendezvous -- Victory -- Consequences -- Rancagua -- Reverberations -- Minute guns