In this short clip from Robert Booth's entertaining talk Thursday at the Marblehead Museum and Historical Society, he explains that the War of 1812 between America and Britain was a small part, the residue, of what had been a worldwide war among the powers of the age.
Robert Booth is the author of Mad for Glory: A Rogue American & The Pacific World, 1813-1815
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