309: Knights of the Sea: 1of2: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812, by David Hanna Paperback – February 5, 2013

Knights of the Sea: 1of2: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812, by David Hanna   Paperback – February 5, 2013

https://www.amazon.com/Knights-Sea-Story-Boxer-Enterprise-dp-0451239202/dp/0451239202/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1573611714

Samuel Blyth was the youthful commander of His Britannic Majesty’s brig Boxer, and William Burrows, younger still, commanded the USS Enterprise. Both men valued honor above all, and on this day their commitment would be put to the ultimate test.

Though it lasted less than an hour, the battle between the Boxer and the Enterprise was a brutal contest whose outcome was uncertain. When the cannon smoke cleared, good men had been lost, and the U.S. Navy’s role in the war had changed.

In Knights of the Sea, David Hanna brings to life a lost era, paying tribute to the young commanders who considered it the highest honor to harness the wind to meet their foes, and would be immortalized by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The only major naval battle of the War of 1812, the battle between the Boxer and the Enterprise came to represent not only a military turning point, but a maritime era that would soon be gone forever.