APPENDIX NOTE ON TUDOR SHIPPING
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
THE WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES
A Chronicle of 1812
By WILLIAM WOOD
CHRONICLES OF CANADA
Volume 14
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I OPPOSING CLAIMS
CHAPTER II OPPOSING FORCES
CHAPTER III 1812: OFF TO THE FRONT
CHAPTER IV 1812: BROCK AT DETROIT AND QUEENSTON HEIGHTS
CHAPTER V 1813: THE BEAVER DAMS, LAKE ERIE, AND CHATEAUGUAY
CHAPTER VI 1814: LUNDY'S LANE, PLATTSBURG, AND THE GREAT BLOCKADE
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
FLAG AND FLEET
HOW THE BRITISH NAVY WON THE
FREEDOM OF THE SEAS
By William Wood
CONTENTS
BOOK I, THE ROWING AGE
WHEN SOLDIERS FOUGHT ROWBOAT BATTLES BESIDE THE SHORES
OF THE OLD WORLD
From the Beginning of War on the Water to King Henry VIII's
First Promise of a Sailing Fleet
1545
CHAPTER
I THE VERY BEGINNING OF SEA-POWER
(10,000 years and more B.C.)
II THE FIRST FAR WEST (The last 5,000 years B.C.)
III EAST AGAINST WEST (480 B. C.-146 B.C.)
IV CELTIC BRITAIN UNDER ROME (55 B.C.-410 A.D.)
V THE HARDY NORSEMAN (449-1066)
VI THE IMPERIAL NORMAN (1066-1451)
VII KING OF THE ENGLISH ERA (1545)
BOOK II, THE SAILING AGE
DRAKE TO NELSON, 1585-1805
PART I�THE SPANISH WAR
VIII OLD SPAIN AND NEW (1492-1571)
IX THE ENGLISH SEA-DOGS (1545-1580)
X THE SPANISH ARMADA (1588)
PART II�THE DUTCH WAR
XI THE FIRST DUTCH WAR (1623-1653)
XII THE SECOND AND THIRD DUTCH WARS (1665-1673)
PART III�THE FRENCH WAR
XIII THE FIRST WAR AGAINST LOUIS XIV (1689-1697)
XIV THE SECOND WAR AGAINST LOUIS XIV (1702-1713)
XV WAR AGAINST FRANCE AND SPAIN (1739-1748)
XVI PITT'S IMPERIAL WAR (1756-1763)
XVII THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1775-1783)
XVIII NELSON (1798-1805)
XIX "1812"
BOOK III, THE AGE OF STEAM AND STEEL
PART I�A CENTURY OF CHANGE (1814-1914)
XX A CENTURY OF BRITISH-FRENCH-AMERICAN PEACE (1815-1914)
XXI A CENTURY OF MINOR BRITISH WARS (1815-1914)
PART II�THE GREAT WAR (1914-1918)
XXII THE HANDY MAN
XXIII FIFTY YEARS OF WARNING (1864-1914)
XXIV WAR (1914-1915)
XXV JUTLAND (1916)
XXVI SUBMARINING (1917-1918)
XXVII SURRENDER! (1918)
XXVIII WELL DONE!
POSTSCRIPT THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS
ILLUSTRATIONS
VIKING MAN-OF-WAR. . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
"DUG-OUT" CANOE
ROMAN TRIREME�A vessel with three benches of oars
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR'S TRANSPORTS
Eddystone Lighthouse, 1699. The first structure of stone and timber. Build for Trinity House by Winstanley and swept away in a storm. Eddystone Lighthouse, 1882. The fourth and present structure, erected by Sir J. N. Douglass for Trinity House.
The Santa Maria, flagship of Christopher Columbus when he discovered America in 1492. Length of keel, 60 feet. Length of ship proper, 93 feet. Length over all, 128 feet. Breadth, 26 feet. Tonnage, full displacement, 233.
DRAKE
One of Drake's Men-of-War that Fought the Great Armada in 1588.
ARMADA OFF FOWEY (Cornwall) as first seen in the English Channel.
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE ON BOARD THE REVENGE receiving the surrender of Don Pedro de Valdes.
SAILING SHIP. The Pilgrim Fathers crossed in a similar vessel (1620).
LA HOGUE, 1692.
H.M.S. Centurion engaged and took the Spanish Galleon Nuestra Senhora de Capadongo, from Acapulco bound to Manila, off Cape Espiritu Santo, Philippine Islands, June 20, 1743.
The ROYAL GEORGE
NELSON
FIGHTING THE GUNS ON THE MAIN DECK, 1782.
THE BLOWING UP OF L'ORIENT DURING THE BATTLE OF THE NILE.
THE BATTLE OF COPENHAGEN, APRIL 2nd, 1801. (Note the British line ahead.)
The VICTORY. Nelson's Flagship at Trafalgar, launched in 1765, and still used as the flagship in Portsmouth Harbour.
TRAFALGAR. 21st October, 1805.
MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR. (Reproduced by permission from the model at the Royal United Service Institution.)
THE SHANNON AND THE CHESAPEAKE.
THE ROYAL WILLIAM. Canadian built; the first boat to cross any ocean steaming the whole way (1833), the first steamer in the world to fire a shot in action (May 5, 1836).
BATTLESHIP.
Seaplane Returning after flight.
DESTROYER.
A PARTING SHOT FROM THE TURKS AT GALLIPOLI.
JELLICOE.
BEATTY.
LIGHT CRUISER.
H.M.S. Monmouth, Armoured Cruiser. Sunk at Coronel, November 1st, 1914.
BATTLESHIP FIRING A BROADSIDE.
Jellicoe's Battle Fleet in Columns of Divisions. 6.14 P.M.
THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND�PLAN II. Jellicoe's battle line formed and fighting. 6:38 P.M.
British Submarine.
Minesweeper at work.
H.M. KING GEORGE V.
ALL AFLOAT
A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
By William Wood
CONTENTS
I. A LAND OF WATERWAYS 1
II. CANOES 16
III. SAILING CRAFT; THE PIONEERS 41
IV. SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE FLEURS-DE-LIS 54
V. SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE UNION JACK 68
VI. SAILING CRAFT: THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP 82
VII. SAILING CRAFT: 'FIT TO GO FOREIGN' 92
VIII. STEAMERS 129
IX. FISHERIES 155
X. ADMINISTRATION 171
XI. NAVIES 179
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 189
INDEX 193
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE VOYAGEURS ON A MISTY MORNING From a painting by Verner. Frontispiece
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAKES By Lorado Taft, in the Chicago Art Institute. Facing page 12
SHIPS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY From Winsor's 'America.' 44
CHAMPLAIN'S SHIP, THE 'DON DE DIEU' From the model at the Quebec Tercentenary. 54
A FRENCH FRIGATE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY From Winsor's 'America.' 64
SHIP 'BATAVIA,' 2000 TONS Built by F.-X. Marquis at Quebec, 1877. Lost on Inaccessible Island, 1879. From a picture belonging to Messrs Ross and Co., Quebec. 92
TRANSPORT 'BECKWITH' AND BATEAUX, LAKE ONTARIO, 1816 From the John Ross Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library. 136
THE 'ROYAL WILLIAM' From the original painting in possession of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. 140