Seapower Sovereignty, by Software

Center for a New Square Deal
Written By Bill Rivers

It looked bad for America in the Winter of 1813.

With Royal Navy warships swarming the eastern seaboard and several thousand Regulars already stationed in Canada, Great Britain appeared poised to reclaim the colonies it had lost 30 years earlier. If it could seize control of Lake Erie, the Saint Lawrence Seaway would become a funnel of soldiers and supplies to the interior of the continent — a British dagger plunging deep into America’s vitals.

The decisive moment came on September 10, when an American force led by Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry met the British fleet in a pitched three-hour battle on the lake.

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Bill Rivers

Bill Rivers works at Palantir Technologies, Inc. Previously, he served as speechwriter to the Secretary of Defense in the first Trump Administration and held a variety of roles in the energy industry and the U.S. Senate. The bestselling author of the historical fiction novel Last Summer Boys (2022), he holds an MPA from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied as a Truman Scholar.

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