Skip Navigation

Where Am I?...

C - War of 1812 Bibliography

Caffrey, Kate

The Lion and the Union. The Anglo-American War. 1812-1815

London: Andre Deutsch, 1977

340

R971.034 C117 CESC

 

Campbell, Maria

Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of General William Hull; Prepared from His Manuscripts, by his daughter Mrs. Maria Campbell: together with the History of the Campaign of 1812, and Surrender of the Post of Detroit, by his grandson, James Freeman Clarke.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1848

xx, [17]-482

Howes 1616; Sabin 10263

R971.034 CAM CESC

 

Canada

Treaties and Agreements Affecting Canada In Force Between His Majesty and the United States of America with Subsidiary Documents. 1814-1925

Compiled in the Department of External Affairs

Ottawa: F.A. Acland, 1927

viii, 578

[War of 1812: pp. viii, 1-9 (Treaty of Ghent)]

R341.273 C16 CESC

 

Canada. Department of Militia and Defence40 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 76) A. 1877. Militia Pensions. War of 1812-15. Department of Militia and Defence. Return for 1876-77. Statement showing the names of all veterans who have proved their rights to partake in the grant of $50,000 voted last session by Parliament in favor of militiamen of 1812-15, and the action taken in each case during the current financial year; also the names of all those who have applied for a pension and upon whose cases no decision has been given.

Printed by Order of Parliament.

Ottawa: Maclean, Roger & Co., Wellington Street, 1877

109

R971.034 CAN CESC

 

Canadian Veterans of the War of 1812. Edited with an introduction by Eric Jonasson

Winnipeg: Wheatfield Press, 1981

[includes lists which originally appeared in the Dominion Sessional Papers [Ottawa, 1875, Vol. 8, S.P. 25 pp. 1-15] [Ottawa, 1876, Vol. 9, S.P. 7, pp. 1-96)]

70

R971.034 CAN CESC

 

Canniff, William 1830-1910

History of the Province of Ontario, (Upper Canada) Containing a Sketch of Franco-Canadian History, - The Bloody Battles of the French and Indians, - The American Revolution, - The Settlement of the country by U.E. Loyalists, - Trials and Hardships Incident to Pioneer Life, - Thrilling Narratives of Adventures with Indians and Wild Beasts, - Struggles for the Establishment of Christianity and Schools, - Agriculture and Manufactures, - The War of 1812, - Battle Scenes, Capture of Buffalo, - Subsequent Growth and Prosperity of the Country, Including Biographies of Prominent First Settlers and the Census of 1871

Toronto: A.H. Hovey, 1872

xxxii, 672

Watters pg. 661

R971.3 C164a CESC

 

Carey, Matthew 1760-1839

The Olive Branch: or, Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic. A Serious Appeal on the Necessity of Mutual Forgiveness and Harmony. Seventh Edition, enlarged. "Faction is the madness of the many for the benefit of the few." "Frenzied be the head...palsied be the hand...that attempts to destroy the union." Gen. Eaton. " Truths would you teach...or save a sinking land: All fear...none aid you....and few understand." Pope" Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to DESOLATION." Matt.xxi.25. " In dissensione nulla salus conspicitur." Caesar " If we pay a proper regard to truth, we shall find it necessary not only to condemn our friends upon some occasions, and commend our enemies, but also to commend and condemn the same persons, as different circumstances may require: for as it is not to be imagined, that those who are engages in great affairs, should always by pursuing false or mistaken measures, so neither is it probable that their conduct can at all times be exempt from error." Polybius. " Neither the law of Christianity nor of Reason requires us to prostrate our national independence, freedom, property and honor at the feet of proud, tyrannical oppressors." Address of Rev. Dr. David Osgood, Mary, 1798."Watch those ungrateful souls who murmur about taxation and oppression-the burdens of government and religion. They have fellowship with our enemies. They are traitors to God and Christianity." Address by the Rev. Dr. Elijah Parish, July 4, 1799. " As citizens, we ought with one heart to cleave to and support our own government. It is a government of our own forming, and administered by men of our own choice." Sermon by Rev. Jedidiah Morse, May 9, 1798.

Middlebury Vt.: Printed and Published by William Slade, June.

January 1816

468

[With spurious Sir John A. Macdonald bookplate and rubber stamp]

Sabin 10877

R971.034 CAR CESC

 

Carr, Mrs. Henry James (comp.)

Index To Certified Copy of List of American Prisoners of War 1812-1815 as Recorded in General Entry Book Ottawa Canada. List of American Prisoners of War who died at Princetown, Dartmoor, England. 1812-1815.

Compiled by Mrs. Henry James Carr

Published by Association of State Presidents, Past and Present, and Charter Members, of the National Society, United States Daughters of 1812

25

R973.527 CAR CESC

 

Carroll, John

My boy Life, Presented in a Succession of True Stories, By John Carroll, D.D. "The Child is father to the man," Wordsworth A Book for Old or Young

Toronto: William Briggs, 1882

xii, 90, 8

[War of 1812: pg. 49-72]

 

Cases and Queries Submitted to Every Citizen of the United States...

SEE

Tracts and Facts as to the War of 1812(4)

 

Cass, Lewis 1782-1866

Life of General Lewis Cass: Comprising an Account of His Military services in the North-West During the War with Great Britain, His Diplomatic Career and Civil History. To which is appended, A Sketch of the Public and Private History of major-General W.O. Butler, of the Volunteer Service of the United States. With two Portraits.

Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co., 1848

[3], viii, [11]-210, [2]

Sabin 11355

R971.0340924 CASS

 

Christie, Robert 1788-1856

A history of the Late Province of Lower Canada, Parliamentary and Political, From the Commencement to the Close of Its Existence as a Separate Province; Embracing a period of Fifty Years, that is to say: - from the erection of the Province, in 1791, to the extinguishment thereof, in 1841, and its reunion with Upper Canada. by act of the Imperial Parliament, in consequence of the pretensions of the Representative Assembly of the Province, and its repudiation, in 1837, of the Constitution, as by law established, and of the Rebellions to which these gave rise, in that and the following year; with a variety of interesting notices, financial, statistical, historical, & c. available to the future historian of North America, including a prefatory sketch of the Province of Quebec, Form the conquest to the passing of the Quebec Act, in 1774, and thence to its division, in 1791, into the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada; with details of the Military and Naval operations therein, during the late war with the United States, fully explaining also the difficulties with respect to the Civil List and other matters; tracing from origin to outbreak, the disturbances which led to the reunion of the two Provinces.

In Three Volumes. vol. II

Quebec: T. Cary & Co., 1848

iv, 396

Gagnon I 895; Lande 138; Savin 12936; TPL 2450; Watters p. 664

R971.4 C463 Vol. 2 CESW

 

Citizen Soldiers of North Point...

SEE

[Hickman, N., ed.]

 

Clarke, James Freeman

William Hull and The Surrender of Detroit. A Biographical Sketch taken, with few omissions, from the volume "Memorial and Biographical Sketches" by James Freeman Clarke. Together with extracts from Letters from the Appendix in the Volume "General Hull's Military and Civil Life"

Boston: Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co.,1912

32

R971.0340924 HULL

 

Cleaveland, John

A Discourse Delivered on the Day of National Humiliation and Prayer, August 20, 1812. By John Cleaveland, A.M. Pastor of the North Church in Wrentham.

Boston: Printed by Samuel T. Armstrong, No. 50 Cornhill, 1812

20

 

Casselman, Alexander Clark

SEE

Richardson, Major John

 

Channing, William Ellery 1780-1842

A Sermon, Preached in boston, July 23, 1812, The Day of The Publick Fast, appointed by the executive of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in consequence of The Declaration of War Against Great Britain.

By William Ellery Channing Minister of the Church in Federal Street.

Published at the request of the Hearers.

Boston: Greenough and Stebbins, 1812

20

Gagnon II 387; Sabin 11919; TPL 890

R971.034 CHA

 

Clift, G. Glenn

Notes on Kentucky Veterans of the War of 1812.

Anchorage, Kentucky: Borderland Books, 1964

58

R973.52469 CLI CESC

 

Cobbett, William 1762-1835

Letters on the Late War between the United States and Great Britain: together with Other Miscellaneous writings on the same subject.

New York: J. Belden and Co., 1815

vii.407{plus on back fly-leaf, a pasted-in article from the National Intelligencer, July 29 of the men who were impressed aboard the Chesapeake, Jan. 7, 1807.

Gagnon I 917; Howes 2044; Sabin 13889; TPL 1040

R971.034 COB

 

Cobbett, William 1762-1835

Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of America

by William Cobbett, P.P. for Oldham

New York: Harper & Brothers - 82 Cliff Street, 1834

viii, [9]-196,[20] ads.

Sabin 13891

R971.0340924 JACKS

 

Cobbett, William 1762-1835

The Pride of Britannia Humbled; or, the Queen of the Ocean Unqueen'd, "By the American Cock Boats," Or, "The Fir built Things, with bits of Striped Bunting at their Mast heads." -(As the Right Hon. Mr. Canning, in the british Parliament, called our American Frigates.) Illustrated and Demonstrated By Four Letters Addressed to Lord Liverpool on the Late American War. By William Cobbett, Esq. Including a Number of his other most Important Letters, and arguments, in Defence of The American Republic. To which is added, A Glimpse of the American Victories, on Land, on the Lakes, and on the Ocean. With Persuasive to Political Moderation. Most respectfully addressed to the Persons composing the two great Parties in the United States in general, and to the politicians of Connecticut and Massachusetts, in Particular.

A New Edition.

Philadelphia: William Reynolds, 1815

216

Howes 2050; Sabin 14011

R971.034 COB

 

Coffin, William Foster 1808-1878

The War, and Its Moral: A Canadian Chronicle.

Montreal: John Lovell, 1864

xvi,(17)-296

Gagnon I 924; Lande 143; Howes 2073 "of negligible value";Sabin 14190; Thibeault 10114; TPL 6090; Watters p. 864

R971.053 C654

 

Coggeshall, George 1784-1861

History of the American Privateers and Letters-of-Marque, During our War with England in the Years 1812, '13 and '14. Interspersed with our Several Naval Battles Between American and British Ships-of-War.

In One Volume, Illustrated. Second Edition, Revised, Corrected and Enlarged, with Additional Notes and Explanations.

New York: Published by and for the Author, 1856

1v, 482

Howes 2074; Sabin 14194

R971.053 C656[Witton]

 

A Compendious Account of the Late War to Which is Added the Curious Adventures of Corporal Samuel Stubbs (a Kentuckian of 65 Years of Age)

Heartman's Historical Series No. 5. Ninety-Nine copies printed for Chas. Fred. Heartman. New York City.

#45 of 99

New York: Chas. Fred. Heartman,n.d.

30

Howes 2188

R971.053 C738 (Witton)

 

A Complete List of American Navy; Showing the Name, number of Guns, Commander's names, and Station of each Vessel, with the names of all the Officers in service, for October, 1813; and Steel's List of the Navy of Great Britain, for July, 1813.

Boston: n.p., 1813

107

Sabin 15059

R359.30973 COM CESC

 

Conant, Thomas 1842-1905

Upper Canada Sketches

Toronto: William Briggs, 1898

viii,(9)-243

(War of 1812: Capts. IV,V)

Watters p. 865

R971.3 C742 CESC

 

Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1951

The Battle of Lake Erie: or Answers to Messrs. Burges, Duer, and Mackenzie.

Cooperstown: H. & E. Phinney, 1843

iv, (5)-118

Howes 2281, Sabin 16415, TPL 942

R971.053 C786 (Witton)

 

Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851

The History of the Navy of the United States of America.

In Two Volumes.

London: Richard Benley, 1839

xii, 558

(War of 1812: Vol. II pp. 134-558)

Howes 2283; Sabin 16442

R359 Coo (Witton)

 

Costello, F. H.

On Fighting Decks in 1812. by F. H. Costello. Author or "Master Ardick, Buccaner," "Under the Rattlesnake Flag," etc. Illustrated by S. Steeple Davis.

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, Publishers, n.d.

385; 8 plates

R971.034 COS CESC

 

Coxe, Trench

An Examination of The Conduct of Great Britain, Respecting Neutrals. "The ardour, with which the British ministry embarked in the war against France, was presently manifested by, perhaps, the most extraordinary proceeding, that ever appeared upon record; and this was to force the neutral powers to unite in the combination to crush the French republic."

(British annual register of 1783)

Philadelphia: Printed by B. Graves, No. 40 North Fourth-Street, 1807

72

 

Creighton, Luella Sanders (Bruce) 1901-

Tecumseh. The Story of the Shawnee Chief. Great Stories of Canada.

Toronto: Macmillan, 1965

159

R970.92 T228c CESC

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

The Battle of Lundy's Lane. 1814. An address Delivered Before the Lundy's Lane Historical Society October 16th, 1888.

Second Edition

Welland, Ont: Lundy's Lane Historical Society, 1891

46

R971.053 C888L2 CESC

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

The Battle of Lundy's Lane. 25th July, 1814. A Historical Study.

Third Edition.

Welland, Ont.: Lundy's Lane Historical Society, 1893.

48, fold. map.

Thibeault 10117

R971.053 C888L3 CESC

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

The Contest for the Command of Lake Erie in 1812-1813; A Paper Read before the Canadian Institute, May 6th, 1899.

Toronto: Canadian House Reprint, 1968

28

R971.034 CRU CESC

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

Documentary History of the campaign on the Niagara Frontier in 1812-14.

Welland, Ont.: Lundy's Lane Historical Society, 1896-1908

vol. 1 216 (2 copies)

2 482, xxxiii

3 306, xix

4 344, xxii

5 305, xx

6 331, xxi

7 280, xxi

8 280, xx

9 351, xxviii

Thibeault 10119

R971.053 L972 CESC

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939 (ed.)

Documents Relating to the Invasion of Canada and the surrender of Detroit 1812. Published by Authority of the honourable the Secretary of State, Under the Direction of the Archivist.

Publications of the Canadian Archives No. 7

Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1912

vii, 258, fold. map.

Howes 2471; TPL 891

R971.053 C16 CESC

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

Documents Relating to the Invasion of Canada and the Surrender of Detroit. 1812.

New York: Ano Press, 1971 (Reprint)

4, vii, 258, 2 fold, map., 5

R971.034 C16 CESC

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

Documents Relating to the Invasion of the Niagara Peninsula by the United State Army, commanded by General Jacob Brown, In July and August, 1814.

Niagara-on-the-Lake: Niagara Historical Society, 1921

99

Thibeault 10121

R971.053 L888do CESC

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1859-1939

Drummond's Winter Campaign. 1813.

Welland: Lundy's Lane Historical Society, 1895.

30

Thibeault 10122

R971.053 C888d CESC (2 copies)

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

The Fight in the Beechwoods. A Study in Canadian History.

Second Edition - Enlarged

Welland, Ont.: Lundy's Lane Historical Society, 1895

32

Watters p. 668

R971.053 C888 CESC

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

General Hull's Invasion of Canada in 1812. From the transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. Third Series - 1097-1908. Vol. I Section II. English Literature, History and Allied Subjects, Part III

Ottawa: Printed for the authors by the Royal Society of Canada, 1908

[211]-290

R971.053 C888g CESC

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

Harrison and Proctor. The River Raisin. From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. Third Series -1910. Vol. IV Section II.

Ottawa: Printed for the Royal Society of Canada, 1911

[119]-167

Thibeault 24408

R971.034 CRU CESC (Autographed by the author)

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

History of Campaign on Niagara Frontier.

New York: Arno Press, 1971(Reprint)

vol. 1 4, 306, xix, 5

2 4, 305, xx, 331, xxi, 280, xxi, 5

3 fold map., 4, 280, xx, 351, xxviii, 5

4 4, 482, xxxiii, 5

R971.034 C16 CESC

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

A History of the battle of Stoney Creek, written by Brigadier General E. A. Cruikshank. Written for the County of Wentworth Veterans Association of the Occasion of the One hundredth anniversary of the battle of June 6, 1913. This has never been published.

8

R971.053 C888b CESH

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

Inventory of the Military Documents in the Canadian Archives.

Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1910

370

(War of 1812: pp. 111-122 (Series C 27. vol. 676-695)

R971.01 C16m CESC

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

The Political Adventures of John Henry. The Record of an International Imbroglio.

Toronto: Macmillan, 1936

vii, 206

Thibeault 10123; Watters p. 487

R971.053 C888p CESC (2 copies)

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

Public Life and Services of Robert Nichol Reprinted from "The Ontario Historical Society's "Papers and Records"," Vol. 19

76

RB N514 CESC

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

Record of the Services of Canadian Regiments in the War of 1812. - The Glengarry Light Infantry

Toronto: Canadian House Reprints,1968

15

R971.053 CRU CESC

 

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander 1854-1939

Record of the Services of Canadian Regiments in the War of 1812. - The Militia of the Eastern District.

Toronto: Canadiana House Reprints, 1968

30

R971.034 CRU CESC

 

Cumberland, Frederick Barlow 1846-1913

The Battle of York. An Account of the Eight Hours' Battle from the Humber Bay to the old Fort in Defence of York on April 27, 1813. Centennial Series, War of 1812-15.

Toronto: William Briggs, 1913

32

R971.053 C91 CESC

R971.034 CUM CESC

 

Currie, Emma Augusta (Harvey) 1829-1913

The Story of Laura Secord and Canadian Reminiscences. With portraits and engravings.

St. Catharines, Ont.: n.p. 1913

iv, 254 (plus newspaper clipping from April 27, 1923 of the house of Laura Secord slept in after carrying the message.)

Watters p. 487

RB Se24s CESC

 

Curzon, Mrs. Sarah Anne 1833-1898

Canada in Memoriam. 1812-14. Her Duty in the erection of Monuments in Memory of her Distinguished Sons and Daughters. A Paper read July 25, 1890, by Mrs. Curzon, of Toronto, at the Annual Commemoration of the Battle of Lundy's Lane, of 1814, before the Lundy's Lane Historical Society.

Welland, Ont.: Lundy's Lane Historical Society, 1891

8

R971.053 C949 CESC

 

Curzon, Mrs. Sarah Anne 1833-1898

Laura Secord, The Heroine of 1812: A Drama. And Other Poems.

Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson, 1887

vii, (10)-215

Watters p. 430

R819.1 C949 CESC

 

Curzon, Mrs. Sarah Anne 1833-1989

The Story of Laura Secord 1813

Welland, Ont.: Lundy's Lane Historical Society, 1898

(Second edition)

16

RB SE24c CESC

 

Cuthbertson, George A

Freshwater. A history and narrative of The Great Lakes. Printed and bound specially for Canada Steamship Lines and is limited to two hundred copies, which are not for sale. This copy is No 173.

Toronto; Macmillan, 1931

14, 315

[War of 1812: pp. 139-202,277-282]

R386 C792 CESC(signed by author)