HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR IN THE WESTERN COUNTRY, by Robert B. McAfee.

LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY: Worsley & Smith, 1816. First edition.

Hardcovers, contemporary calf leather covered boards, recent spine label titled in gilt, 5x8 inches. Pagination: [1 blank leaf], viii (prelims), 534 (text), [1] (printer's colophon), [1] (publisher's note), [2 blank leaves].

GOOD Condition: The covers have some rubs and edge wear but are sturdy and attractive; there is an early label of New Sharon Town Library on the front pastedown, brown spotting (from the leather binding) to the endpapers, toning to the pages, a few pages have a single word written in the upper margin that has been inked out, otherwise just some age spots, small stains, a bit of offsetting, etc., here and there; otherwise tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. One of the nicer copies I have seen.

"History of the Late War in the Western Country" is considered by many to be the authoritative work on the War of 1812.. Written by Robert B. McAfee (his name at the end of the Preface), a Kentuckian who served in the War of 1812.

Bibliographical Sources: Thomson 738. Sabin 42929, and many others.

About Robert B. McAfee (from Wikipedia):

******Robert Breckinridge McAfee, b.1784 d.1849, was an American diplomat, historian and politician. He served in the War of 1812 and was the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.

McAfee was orphaned in 1795 after his father, a pioneer of Kentucky, was killed in New Orleans, Louisiana. His guardian, his father's friend and his namesake, John Breckinridge, later became the Attorney General of the United States under President Thomas Jefferson.

In 1800, McAfee was elected to represent Mercer County in the Kentucky House of Representatives and served there until he volunteered during the War of 1812.

During the War of 1812, McAfee served successively as sergeant, ensign and second lieutenant in the Army of the Northwest in its border campaign, then as quartermaster and lastly as captain of Richard Mentor Johnson's regiment in the expeditions against the Native Americans. He was made General in the United States Army and commanded troops raised by order of Gen. Andrew Jackson that took part in the Battle of New Orleans as well as the Battle of the Thames. In 1816, his book, HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR IN THE WESTERN COUNTRY {History of the War of 1812) was published.

Following his military service McAfee had a successful career in Kentucky politics.******

About the WAR OF 1812 (from Wikipedia):

******The War of 1812 (1812-1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It began when the United States declared war on 18 June 1812 and, although peace terms were agreed upon in the December 1814 Treaty of Ghent, did not officially end until the peace treaty was ratified by Congress on 17 February 1815.

In August 1814, British troops burned Washington, before American victories at Baltimore and Plattsburgh in September ended fighting in the north. Fighting continued in the Southeastern United States, where in late 1813 a civil war had broken out between a Creek faction supported by Spanish and British traders and those backed by the U.S. Supported by U.S. militia under General Andrew Jackson, the American backed Creeks won a series of victories, culminating in the capture of Pensacola in November 1814. In early 1815, Jackson defeated a British attack on New Orleans, catapulting him to national celebrity and later victory in the 1828 United States presidential election.******