Reeder, Red

In this discussion of the causes, course, and climax of the War of 1812, the author describes America's great sailors-in defeat at Boston Harbor, in victory at Lake Erie; the fantastic day before New Orleans when Andrew Jackson, Jean Lafitte, and a motley armey of Regulars, Indians, and pirates, routed the Redcoats; and other battles and events.

Discusses the First World War from its causes to the signing of the Armistice and subsequent attempt to push theCommunists out of Russia.

Capsule biographies of twelve prominent figures in the American Revolution: Ethan Allen, John Burgoyne, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Benjamin Thompson, Charles Lee, Margaret Corbin, John Barry, George Rogers Clark, Marinus Willett, Anthony Wayne, Francis Marion, and Deborah Sampson.

Discusses the First World War from its causes to the signing of the Armistice and subsequent attempt to push theCommunists out of Russia.

A biography of the general who commanded the victorious Union armies at the close of the Civil War and who later became the eighteenth President of the United States.