Frederick C. Drake
Department of History

SSHRC General Research Grants
- ($850.00) The War of 1812:Naval operations, lakes and rivers war.
Research Grants
- (Brock Time Release) War of 1812 Naval History.
Other Publications
- "Artillery and its Influence on Naval Tactics: Reflections on the Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813," William J. Welsh and David C. Skaggs (eds.), War on the Great Lakes: Essays Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Battle of Lake Er
ie, Kent, Kent State University Press, 1991, pp. 17 - 29.
- "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647 - 1662," reprinted by request in Witchcraft in Colonial America, 416 pp., Volume VIII of Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology, XIII volumes, editor Brain P. Levack (Garland Press, 1993).
- "Auxiliary Naval Forces, Spanish-Cuban/American War," in Benjamin R. Beede (ed.), The War of 1898 and U.S. Interventions 1898-1934 (New York, Garland Press), Volume 2 of Military History of the United States (New York, 1994), ISBN 08
240-5624-8, pp. 34-35.
- "Camara y Libermore, Manuel de la, Admiral," in Benjamin R. Beede (ed.), The War of 1898 and U.S. Interventions 1898-1934 (New York, Garland Press), Volume 2 of Military History of the United States (New York, 1994), ISBN 08240-5624-
8, pp. 87-88.
- "Commander Edward Chichester," in Bejamin R. Beede (ed.), The War of 1898 and U.S. Interventions 1898-1934 (New York, Garland Press), Volume 2 of Military History of the United States (New York, 1994), ISBN 08240-5624-8, pp. 99-100.
- "Montojo y Pasaron, Patricio, Admiral, (1839-1917)," in Benjamin R. Beede (ed.), The War of 1898 and U.S. Interventions 1898-1934 (New York, Garland Press), Volume 2 of Military History of the United States (New York, 1994), ISBN 082
40-5624-8, pp. 342-344.
- "Naval Operations in the Puerto Rican Campaign," in Benjamin R. Beede (ed.), The War of 1898 and U.S. Interventions 1898-1934 (New York, Garland Press), Volumn 2 of Military History of the United States (New York, 1994), ISBN 08240-5
624-8, pp. 364-365.
Reviews
- War along the Niagara, Essays on the War of 1812 and its Legacy, Arthur Bowler (ed.) (Youngstown, New York, 1991), 120pp. illustr., reviewed for the Michigan Historical Review, 18, No. 2 (Fall, 1992), pp. 35 - 36.
Public Activities and Recognition
- Awarded the Great Lakes History Prize, 1990, First Place Prize, awarded by Cleveland State University Department of History and the French-American Endowed Liberty Fund in the field of Great Lakes Maritime History and/or early French- American relati
ons for "The Niagara Peninsula and Naval Aspects of the War of 1812," published in Proceedings of Eighth Niagara Peninsula History Conference, Brock University, May 3, 1986, edited by W.B. Turner (St. Catharines, Vanwell Press, 1990), 15-38. Anno
unced American Neptune, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Spring 1991), p. 140.
- Chair at the session on "Immigrants Experiences in the United States," 27th Canadian Association for American Studies, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, October 24 - 27, 1991.
Paper Presentations
- "Why did it end so soon? : American and British War Plans for 1815," Joint Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the American Military Institute and the Conference for Peace Research in History, George Washington Univ
ersity, Washington, D.C., June 1991.
- "The Sinclair-Croghan Expedition to the Upper Great Lakes in 1814," Eleventh Naval History Symposium, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, October 21-23, 1993.