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1814: Raze of Glory
The CLIMAX OF THE WAR OF 1812
Sailors’ rights? Hah! US NATIONAL DISASTER LOOMS AND HOPE
August 24, 1814: Nathan Jeffries, Joshua Barney, and other patriots get mauled at the Battle of Bladensburg. They call it “the Bladensburg races.”
Washington City--Most residents flee before the British advance. But a Quaker farm girl who became America’s first “First Lady,” Dolley Madison, remains behind to save Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of George Washington and other treasures from the President’s Mansion. An hour later, the British ransack and raze the Mansion and the rest of the US capital.
September 11, 1814: Two separate and overwhelming British assault forces prepare to attack!
Fort McHenry, Maryland—not much chance Nathan can survive this time, after another fight to the death, on Chesapeake Bay.
Plattsburg Bay, New York--Thomas Macdonough’s small US Naval squadron, with Peter Hughes, Catherine Charles, and Taima, are all that stand in the way of a war-winning British victory, on Lake Champlain.
September 14, 1814: The fate of the United States has been decided.
The Bicentennial 1812: Rights of Passage, 1813: Reprisal, 1814: Raze of Glory
Sailors’ rights? Hah! US NATIONAL DISASTER LOOMS AND HOPE
August 24, 1814: Nathan Jeffries, Joshua Barney, and other patriots get mauled at the Battle of Bladensburg. They call it “the Bladensburg races.”
Washington City--Most residents flee before the British advance. But a Quaker farm girl who became America’s first “First Lady,” Dolley Madison, remains behind to save Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of George Washington and other treasures from the President’s Mansion. An hour later, the British ransack and raze the Mansion and the rest of the US capital.
September 11, 1814: Two separate and overwhelming British assault forces prepare to attack!
Fort McHenry, Maryland—not much chance Nathan can survive this time, after another fight to the death, on Chesapeake Bay.
Plattsburg Bay, New York--Thomas Macdonough’s small US Naval squadron, with Peter Hughes, Catherine Charles, and Taima, are all that stand in the way of a war-winning British victory, on Lake Champlain.
September 14, 1814: The fate of the United States has been decided.
The Bicentennial 1812: Rights of Passage, 1813: Reprisal, 1814: Raze of Glory
252 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 28, 2014
About the author
Bert J. Hubinger
6 books3 followersBert J. Hubinger was born in New Jersey and raised in Florida, traveled the sea in search of adventures in sailing, diving, and maritime history. A teacher, editor, photographer, and frequent contributor to a variety of publications. Director of the Annapolis Writing Center and former editor of The Journal of the War of 1812, author of Sea Drums and Other Poems, 1812: Rights of Passage, 1813: Reprisal, and the newly released 1814: Raze of Glory, the third and final published novel in his trilogy on the War of 1812.
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