Keel Boats

Governor Clark, with several gentlemen who had accompanied him on the expedition, together with Captain John Sullivan and his company of militia whose term of office (sixty days) had expired, returned to St. Louis in one of the barges about the 13th of June, leaving Lieutenant Perkins in command, also leaving the two largest gunboats, one of which had been named "Governor Clark." Captain John Sullivan and Captain Yeizer were left in command of the boats.

Keel Boat Replica

These gun boats were nothing more than keel boats, strongly fortified, and supplied with six pounders and howitzers. The men being protected by a musket proof barricade.

Governor William Clark (From Portrait In St. Louis Museum)

Upon Governor Clark's return to St. Louis, he was tendered a public ovation, all of the citizen turning out and welcoming him as a hero, but subsequent information and events ruthlessly deprived him of his easily won military glory.

The last of June, Captain John Sullivan, with a company of militia and some volunteers whose term of service had expired, arrived in St. Louis with one gunboat. This left Lieutenant Perkins, with only sixty men, and the gunboat "Governor Clark," and her crew, commanded by Captain Yeizer. to guard the new fort.[Source]

If There Had Been With Me 2,000 Kentuckians

View Of Frankfort, Kentucky

"Commodore Barney's opinion of the Maryland militia was not a high one."

"At a dinner in his honor, at Frankfort, Kentucky, he said: 'I had the good fortune to be in seventeen battles during the revolution, in all of which the star-spangled banner triumphed over the bloody cross, and in the late war I had the honor of being engaged in nine battles with the same glorious result, except in the last, in which I was unfortunate, though not in fault. If there had been with me 2,000 Kentuckians, instead of 7,000 Marylanders, Washington City would not have been sacked, nor or country disgraced.'" [Source]

Bloody Drama Enacted In Baltimore

Source: Indiana University

Source: Sixty Years In A School-room

Forts And Soldiers

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Fort Amanda

From The Ohio Country....(See e-mail information below)*

 The three thousand men then at Fort Barbee were at once started direct for Defiance, Harrison commanding in person. The first night they encamped at Fort Jennings, where word of the retreat of the enemy was received. This gave opportunity for part of the soldiers to clear the road to Defiance, and others to build a fortification farther up the Auglaize River, on the site of Wayne's Fort Auglaize. This post was named by Lieutenant-Colonel Pogue, its builder, Fort Amanda... .

Jim's Photo of The Fort Amanda Monument

*Note: I received the following information via email:

There are a couple items shown on the webpage regarding Fort Amanda that are incorrect. I’ve researched Fort Amanda for the past 43 years and just recently published my book titled; “Fort Amanda – a Historical Redress.” Fort Amanda was built by Lt. Col. Robert Pogue of the Kentucky militia, not Colonel Poague. Lt. Col. Pogue named the post for his 12 year old daughter Amanda. It was built in 2 phases, the first by Kentucky troops in Oct. 1812 then enlarged by Ohio militia troops in the spring of 1813. When finished there were 5 blockhouses, not 4.

See the Fort Amanda blog here (related to the above e-mail).

Call For Additional Troops

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Claims Of Camerons Of The Eastern District

War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses, 1813-1848, RG 19 E5A
Microform: t-1126 (Image 92)

Angus Cameron
John Cameron, Esq.
Both of Charlottenburgh, Eastern District

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections blog

Broke's Account

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"According to the report of [British] Captain Broke, the most competent surviving eye-witness, the mizzen channels of the 'Chesapeake' locked in the fore-rigging of the 'Shannon.'  'I went forward,' he continues, 'to ascertain her position, and observing that the enemy were flinching from their guns, I gave orders to prepare for boarding.'" [Source]