
Described by the American Historical Review as being "[a] superb, highly readable history of events as seen in the local context," THE OTHER WAR OF 1812 resurrects a forgotten chapter in transatlantic history—the Patriot War. Prior to the war with Great Britain, a party of Georgians invaded a Spanish colony in East Florida confident that partisans there would help them swiftly wrest the colony away from Spain. The raid was a strategic and political disaster. Few sympathizers materialized, official U.S. support dissolved, and an extended guerrilla war ensued. This became the stage on which the young republic clumsily acted out its imperial ambitions and racial fears.