Usual – non-exhaustive list, in some cases use of a VPN will be required for non-US, those without fast internet should think very carefully whether to attempt to try and download any items where multiple volumes can be downloaded in one go or where I have indicated big or large download. I may add to this list if and when I find other suitable material.
The documentary history of the campaign upon the Niagara frontier
Ernest Alexander Cruikshank
Tribune office, Welland [1896-1908]
Part 1 (1814)
PDF link
Part 2 (1814) PDF link
Part 3 (1812) PDF link
Part 4 (1812)
PDF link
Part 5 (Part 1 1813) PDF link
Part 6 (Part 2 1813) PDF link
Part 7 (Part 3 1813) PDF link
Part 8 (part 4 1813)
PDF link
Part 9 (1813 to 1814) PDF link
The Fight in the Beechwoods. A study in Canadian history
Ernest Alexander Cruikshank
W.T. Sawle, Welland 1889
PDF link
Queenston heights
Ernest Alexander Cruikshank
Record printing house, Niagara Falls, Canada 1891.
link (download via Download Menu on the lefthand side)
Drummond's winter campaign, 1813
Ernest Alexander Cruikshank
Tribune office, Welland [1895?]
link (download via Download Menu on the lefthand side)
The Battle of Lundy's Lane, 25th July, 1814: a historical study
Ernest Alexander Cruikshank
Lundy's Lane Historical Society 1893
PDF link
The contest for the command of Lake Erie in 1812-1813
Ernest Alexander Cruikshank
Toronto ??
PDF link
Blockade of Fort George, 1813
Ernest Alexander Cruikshank
Welland 1898
PDF link
Battle of Fort George
Ernest Alexander Cruikshank
Niagara 1896
PDF link
The siege of Fort Erie, August 1st-September 23rd, 1814
Ernest Alexander Cruikshank
Welland 1905
PDF link
Record of the services of Canadian Regiments in the War of 1812: The militia of the eastern district: the counties of Glengarry, Stormont and Dundas
Ernest Alexander Cruikshank
Toronto ??
PDF link
The four principal battles of the late war, being a full detailed account of the battle of Chippeway, fall and destruction of the city of Washington, battles of Baltimore, and New-Orleans
Paris M Davis,
Tarrytown, N.Y., Reprinted, W. Abbatt 1917
PDF link (unfortunately a fold out has obscured some text)
A narrative of the campaigns of the British army at Washington and New Orleans, under Generals Ross, Pakenham, and Lambert, in the years 1814 and 1815; with some account of the countries visited
George Robert Gleig
J. Murray, London 1821
PDF link
Officers of the British forces in Canada during the war of 1812-15
L. Homfray Irving
Welland Tribune 1908
PDF link
The naval war of 1812; or, The history of the United States navy during the last war with Great Britain
Theodore Roosevelt
G. P. Putnam's sons, New York 1882
PDF link
The naval war of 1812; or, The history of the United States navy during the last war with Great Britain, to which is appended an account of the battle of New Orleans
Theodore Roosevelt
Gebbie and company, Philadelphia 1902 – 1910
Volume 1 PDF link
Volume 2 PDF link
The fight for a free sea; a chronicle of the War of 1812
Ralph Delahaye Paine
Yale University Press, New Haven 1921
PDF link
The expedition to Plattsburg, upon Lake Champain, Canada, 1814 : with an account of it, from the journal of the late General Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson
C. W. Robinson
Royal United Service Institution, London 1916
PDF link (map is folded out)
Sea power in its relations to the war of 1812
Alfred Thayer Mahan.
Little, Brown, and company, Boston 1905
Volume 1 link
Volume 2 link
The Canadian war of 1812
Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas
Clarendon Press, Oxford 1906
PDF link
The Naval War of 1812: a documentary history
William S. Dudley
???
Volume 1 link
Volume 2 link
Volume 3 link
Naval actions of the war of 1812
A. James Barnes
Osgood, London 1897
link
An inquiry into the merits of the principal naval actions, between Great-Britain and the United States comprising an account of all British and American ships of war, reciprocally captured and destroyed since the 18th of June 1812
William James
Halifax 1816
PDF link
War of 1812. First series. Containing a full and detailed narrative of the operations of the right division, of the Canadian army
John Richardson
[Brockville] 1842
link (download via Download Menu on the lefthand side)
The British invasion of Maryland, 1812-1815,
William M. Marine
Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland, Baltimore 1913.
link (download via Download Menu on the lefthand side)
Campaigns of the war of 1812-15, against Great Britain
George Washington Cullum
J. Miller, New York 1879
link
The navies on Lake Ontario in the War of 1812
Barlow Cumberland
W. Briggs, Toronto 1907
link
A historic sketch of certain defenses of New York city during the war of 1812-1815
???
New York 1904
link (download via Download Menu on the lefthand side)
The employment of Indians in the War of 1812
Ernest Alexander Cruikshank
G.P.O., Washington 1896.
link (download via Download Menu on the lefthand side)
A chapter of the history of the War of 1812 in the Northwest: embracing the surrender of the northwestern army and fort, at Detroit, August 16, 1812; with a description and biographical sketch of the celebrated Indian chief Tecumseh
Colonel William Stanley Hatch
Miami Printing and Publishing Company, Cincinnati 1872.
link
War of 1812. First series. Containing a full and detailed narrative of the operations of the right division, of the Canadian army
John Richardson
Brockville 1842
link (download via Download Menu on the lefthand side)
The battle of Plattsburg; a study in and of the war of 1812
John Meloy Stahl
The Van Trump company , Argos, Ind. [c1918]
link (download via Download Menu on the lefthand side)
A narrative of the affair of Queenstown: in the war of 1812
Solomon Van Rensselaer
New York, Leavitt, Lord & co.; 1836.
link (download via Download Menu on the lefthand side)
History of the war of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States of America
James Hannay
Morang & co. limited, Toronto 1905
link
Historical memoir of the war in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15: with an atlas
Arsène Lacarrière Latour
John Conrad and Co., Philadelphia 1816
loc.gov/item/02017602 (viewable & downloadable only one page at a time – 10 pages in total)
Select British documents of the Canadian War of 1812
William Charles Henry Wood,
???
Volume 1
PDF link (maps are folded out)
PDF link (maps are folded out with one spread across 2 pages)
PDF link (maps are folded out with some spread across a number of pages)
Volume 2 PDF link
PDF link
PDF link
Volume 3 Part 1 PDF link
PDF link
Part 2 PDF link
PDF link
The Russian Offer of Mediation in the War of 1812
F. A. Golder,
Political Science Quarterly 1916
PDF link
The war of 1812 on the Niagara frontier
Louis L. Babcock
Buffalo Historical Society, Buffalo N.Y. 1927
PDF link
Notices of the war of 1812
John Armstrong
Wiley & Putnam, New York 1839-1840
Volume 1 PDF link
Volume 2 PDF link
Results of the War of 1812-14
William Renwick Riddell
?? 1913
PDF link
The diplomacy of the War of 1812
Frank Arthur Updyke
Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1915
PDF link
The U.S. campaign of 1813 to capture Montreal. : Crysler, the decisive battle of the war of 1812
Robert Sellar
Huntingdon 1913
PDF link
PDF link
Geschichte des americanischen Kriegs, von 1812, vom Anfang bis zum endlichen Schluß desselben, an dem glorreichen achten Januar, 1815
William MacCarty
Ritter 1817
PDF link
link
link
The Campaign of 1812
Steven J. Rauch
Defense Department, Army Department, Military History Center 2014
PDF link
Creek War, 1813-1814
Richard Blackmon
Defense Department, Army Department, Military History Center 2014
PDF link
Defending a New Nation 1783-1811
John R. Maass
Defense Department, Army Department, Military History Center 2014
PDF link
The Chesapeake Campaign, 1813–1814
Charles P. Neimeyer
Defense Department, Army Department, Military History Center 2014
PDF link
The Canadian Theater, 1813
Richard V. Barbuto
Defense Department, Army Department, Military History Center 2014
PDF link
The Canadian Theater, 1814
Richard V. Barbuto
Defense Department, Army Department, Military History Center 2014
PDF link
The Gulf Theater
Joseph F. Stoltz III
Defense Department, Army Department, Military History Center 2014
PDF link
BOOKS THAT CAN BORROWED FOR AN HOUR (RENEWABLE)
Niagara, 1814: America invades Canada
Richard V. Barbuto
University Press of Kansas, Lawrence 2000
link
The invasion of Canada, 1812-1813
Pierre Berton
McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1980
link
Flames across the border: 1813-1814
Pierre Berton
McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1981
link
Pierre Berton's War of 1812 : being a compendium of The invasion of Canada and Flames across the border
Pierre Berton
Anchor Canada, Toronto 2011
link
The War of 1812 : the war that both sides won
Wesley B. Turner,
Dundurn Press, Toronto 1990
link
The defended border; Upper Canada and the War of 1812
Morris Zaslow
Macmillan Co., Toronto 1964
link
Lords of the lake : the naval war on Lake Ontario, 1812-1814
Robert Malcomson
Chatham Pub., London 1999
link
Isaac Brock: larger than life
Ven Begamudre
Montreal & Toronto 2000
link
A nation on trial : America and the War of 1812
Patrick Cecil Telfer White
Wiley, New York 1965
link
The War of 1812 U.S. War Department correspondence, 1812-1815
John C. Fredriksen
McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson North Carolina 2016
link
The other War of 1812 : the Patriot War and the American invasion of Spanish East Florida
James G Cusick,
University Press of Florida, Gainesville 2003
link
Tecumseh & Brock : the War of 1812
by Laxer, James
House of Anansi, Toronto 2012
link
MAPS
A correct map of the seat of war
link
Upper and Lower Canada, circa 1812
Map of Maj. Gen. Ross's route with the British column from Benedict on the Patuxent River to the city of Washington August 1814
loc.gov/item/2012588022
Sketch of the action fought near Bladensberg [i.e. Bladensburg], August 24th, 1814
link
Sketch of the march of the British Army under Gen'l Ross from the 19th to the 29th August 1814 (2 different maps)
link
link
Plan of the siege of Plattsburg and capture of the British fleet on Lake Champlain the 11th Sptr. 1814
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Attack on the American lines near New Orleans Dec. 1814 and Jan. 1815
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Plan of the Attack made by Major Gen. Jackson on a Division of the British Army commanded by Major Gen. J. Keane, on the 23rd December 1814 at 7 o'clock at night
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Map Showing The Landing Of The British Army
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Plan Of The Attack And Defence Of The American Lines below New Orleans, on the 8th January, 1815
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Plan of Fort St. Philip At Plaquemines, shewing the position of the British Vessels when Bombarding the Fort
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Map Of Mobile Point & Part Of The Bay, & of Dauphine Island; showing the position of the British Land & Naval Forces
link
A General Map of the Seat of War in Louisiana & West Florida
link
Sketch of the Position of the British and American Forces during the Operations against New Orleans from the 23 Dec. 1814 to the 8th Jany. 1815
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Battle of Tehoo[pca]
link
paints brigs for the British fleet.
