Battle Command and Initiative

Bibliography

by Major Michael J. Daniels, US Army

Books
Adams, Henry. The War of 1812. H.A. DeWeerd, ed. Washington: The Infantry Journal, 1944.
Barbuto, Richard V. Niagara 1814: America Invades Canada. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
Berton, Pierre. Flames Across the Border: The Canadian-American Tragedy, 1813-1814. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981.
Cruikshank, Ernest A. The Battle of Lundy’s Lane. Welland, Ont.: Lundy’s Lane Historical Society, 1893.
Eisenhower, John S. D. Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott. New York: The Free Press, 1997.
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Hannay, James. History of the War of 1812 Between Great Britain and the United States of America. Toronto: Morang and Company, Limited, 1905.
Johnson, Timothy D. Winfield Scott: The Quest for Military Glory. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Quimby, Robert S. The U.S. Army in the War of 1812: An Operational and Command Study. 2 vols. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State Univ. Press, 1997.
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Periodicals
Guelzo, Carl M. (Captain). “Lundy’s Lane—What to do With an Objective.” Military Review 39 (September 1959), 45-51.
Johnson, Timothy D. “Lundy’s Lane: Winfield Scott’s Blunder to Glory.” Military History Quarterly 8 (autumn 1995), 78-87.
Kimball, Jeffrey. “The Battle of Chippawa: Infantry Tactics in the War of 1812.” Military Affairs 31 (Winter 1967-68), 169-186.

Government Documents
U.S. Army Field Manual 3-0 (Operations), 14 June 2001.
U.S. Army Field Manual 3-90 (Tactics), 4 July 2001.
War of 1812: Papers of the Department of State: 1789-1815. (Microfilm--CARL).

Other Sources
Fredriksen, John Conrad. Niagara, 1814: The United States Army Quest for Tactical Parity in the War of 1812 and its Legacy. Ph.D. Dissertation, Providence College, 1993.
Wood, William, ed. Select British Documents of the Canadian War of 1812. 3 vols, (first Greenwood reprinting). New York: Greenwood Press, 1968.

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