I dunno if this has been posted or not but I found this article on a US nazy website by the above. I understand he has written a book on the war of 1812 in the context of the Napoleonic wars yet I have not read it (has anyone here???) so cannot comment on if its any good anyway link here

http://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/story.asp?STORY_ID=1508