Dr. Frederick Young is Professor Emeritus of History at Saint Mary’s University, where he taught for more than four decades. He taught continental European history with a specialty in German history of the late 19th and early 20th century, particularly German economic development and the concomitant German emigration to South America. Dr. Young frequently taught a seminar on the Era of Napoleon, and as a result he became interested recently in the contemporaneous War of 1812 here in North America, which led to his book published by the Penobscot Bay Press in Stonington, Maine.