BARTON, Samuel

BARTON, Samuel
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   US writer who also published as A.B. Roker. His sf novel, The Battle of the Swash and the Capture of Canada (1888), thought by Thomas D. CLARESON to be the first US future- WAR tale, was written to show the defencelessness of the US coasts (and incidentally the vulnerability of Canada) as the USA and UK come to blows, a conflict eventually won by the USA through the invention of self-destructing torpedo boats. He has been claimed as a US Congressman, Samuel Barton (1785-1858), but it is extremely unlikely that The Battle of the Swash could have been conceived 30+ years before its publication.
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