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Barton, Samuel

Entry updated 17 March 2025. Tagged: Author.

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(1839-1895) US author who worked as a broker and also published under the pseudonym 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 American Future War tale, was written to show the defencelessness of the US coasts as the USA and UK come to blows, a conflict eventually won by the US through the invention of self-destructing torpedo boats, and the consequent Invasion of Canada. This author has been wrongly identified as the US Congressman Samuel Barton (1785-1858): the author of The Battle of the Swash was in fact the Congressman's son. [JC]

Samuel Barton

born Staten Island, New York: 27 February 1839

died New York: 16 November 1895

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