The Navy in Action (U.S. Military Branches and Careers) By Ann Gaines
Publisher: Enslow Publishers | ISBN: 0766016331 | edition 2001| PDF | 128 pages | 6,1 mb
When President James Madison declared war on Great Britain on June 18, 1812, the British Navy was the largest in the world. It had more than seven hundred ships and tens of thousands of experienced sailors.