THE LITERARY LOUNGER
... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE historical setting to The Captain from Con necticut is the little- known war of 1812-1814 be tween England and America, the war in which we burned the Capitol at Washington. From a political and a military point of view it was over shadowed by the Napoleonic War, of which it was an offshoot. The blockade was as irritating to neutral countries then as now and the ...