Showing posts with label Admiral Cockburn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Admiral Cockburn. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Chesapeake Bay

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Ocean Near Chesapeake Bay (View From Virginia)
Monday, May 25, 2020

Left Hampton Roads

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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Gilmer Letter Regarding The British In Hampton

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Source - Library Of Virginia Online Excerpts from the Educator Resource for Francis Walker Gilmer Letter (same link as above): ...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Admiral Cockburn On The Sassafras

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Source "It was on the 6th of May, a warm and beautiful morning, that Cockburn, with hundred men, in eighteen barges, went up the ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Pillage Of Maryland

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"[Admiral] Cockburn had no idea of legitimate hostilities, but of pillage ." "...spring of 1813 the High-Flyer British tend...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

The H.M.S. Maidstone Detachment

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Source From Royal Navy biographies : "...this service was performed in the interior of the enemy's country...in a difficu...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Landing On Cumberland Island

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As seen at the Cumberland NPS Museum exhibit: A battery on Point Peter was established in 1796 to protect the mouth of the St. Mary...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

General Thomas Sydney Beckwith

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Lieutenant-General Sir  Thomas Sydney Beckwith  (1772 - January 15, 1831); married Mary, eldest daughter of Sir William Douglas, sister to...
Friday, May 4, 2012

The Lay Of The Scottish Fiddle

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The Lay Of The Scottish Fiddle , A Tale Of Havre de Grace , is a parody of Sir Walter Scott's works.  It was described in the Cyclopedi...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

The Heroism Of Kitty Knight

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Kitty Knight was mentioned in the publication  Kent's Part In the War, 1812-1814 . "The previous year (1813) the British had bur...
Saturday, December 3, 2011

Forgotten Invasion

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A Banner at the Cumberland Island NPS Museum in St. Marys, Georgia, serves as a reminder to visitors of the " Forgotten Invasion ...

Admiral Cockburn Captured Cumberland Island

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From History of the Late War. ... While...bloody affairs transpired on the Mississippi Admiral Cockburn was pursuing a more lucrative and ...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

Book That Survived The Torching Of Washington, DC

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From History.com , a short video featuring the sole surviving book, taken by Admiral Cockburn, when the British burned Washington: