A Journal of the Voyage of HMS Phoebe 1813-1814
by
Midshipman Allen Gardiner
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
In February 1813 the British frigate Phoebe set out on a secret mission that would involve sailing halfway around the world to attack American settlements in the Pacific Northwest. The United States, frustrated at the treatment of its shipping by the combatants in the Napoleonic Wars, had finally...