ABSTRACT

Bradford, 1813. American naval exploits on the high seas and the Great Lakes, in verse

form. About half of the volume consists of documentation. 1059. Altoff, Gerard. Deep Water Sailors, Shallow Water Soldiers: Manning the

United States Fleet on Lake Erie, 1813. Put-in-Bay, Ohio: Perry Group, 1993. An examination of the construction and manning of the American Lake

Erie fleet between September 1812 and July 1813, which ultimately seized control of the lake and held it for the remainder of the war.