The War of 1812
by
Francis F. Beirne

Maps by
Dorothy de Fontaine

Technical Details

Edition Used

The edition followed in this transcription was that of my own copy of the First Edition, © E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1949. That copyright was not renewed in 1976 or 1977 as then required by law in order to be maintained. The work is thus in the public domain; details here on the copyright law involved.

Illustrations (Maps)

The eleven illustrations in the book are all maps, and very fine maps at that. My practice almost everywhere else onsite is to colorize maps for clarity; here I haven't done so, because no improvement is possible: a fact which was acknowledged by the publisher with the rather unusual separate map credit on the title page. My only changes were to restore most of the solid blacks and whites lost in the mass printing of the book, then to translate the maps from the black-and‑white of the printed edition to a dark blue matching the text in my transcription.

(p9) List of Maps

Pagination and Local Links

For citation and indexing purposes, the pagination is shown in the right margin of the text at the page turns (like at the end of this line); p57  these are also local anchors. Sticklers for total accuracy will of course find the anchor at its exact place in the sourcecode.

In addition, I've inserted a number of other local anchors: whatever links might be required to accommodate the author's own cross-references, as well as a few others for my own purposes. If in turn you have a website and would like to target a link to some specific passage of the text, please let me know: I'll be glad to insert a local anchor there as well.

Proofreading

As almost always, I retyped the text by hand rather than scanning it — not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise I heartily recommend: Qui scribit, bis legit. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if success­ful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.)

My transcription has been minutely proofread. In the table of contents above, the sections are shown on blue backgrounds, indicating that I believe the text of them to be completely errorfree. As elsewhere onsite, the header bar at the top of each chapter's webpage will remind you with the same color scheme.

The printed book was remarkably well proofread; the inevitable typographical errors are few and all trivial, and therefore marked by dotted underscores like this: as elsewhere on my site, glide your cursor over the bullet or the underscored words to read what was actually printed. Similarly, underscored measurements provide conversions to metric, e.g., 10 miles.

A number of odd spellings, curious turns of phrase, etc. have been marked <!‑‑ sic  in the sourcecode, just to confirm that they were checked.

Any over­looked mistakes, please drop me a line, of course: especially if you have a copy of the printed book in front of you.

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