Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American RevolutionUnshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Williard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. Throughout this perilous period, the struggle was all about free trade. |
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For Cutting Off Our Trade | 50 |
To the Shores of Tripoli | 89 |
The Reign of Witches | 124 |
Free Trade and Sailors Rights | 142 |
A Mere Matter of Marching | 182 |
Purified as by Fire | 214 |
You Shall Now Feel the Effects of War | 279 |
Destroy and Lay Waste | 299 |
Hard War | 338 |
So Proudly We Hail | 361 |
I Must Not Be Lost | 375 |
Acknowledgments | 407 |
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