Showing posts with label Battle of Bladensburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Battle of Bladensburg. Show all posts
Friday, August 24, 2018

Sketch Of The Action Fought Near Bladensberg

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Source Sketch of the action fought near Bladensberg [i.e. Bladensburg], August 24th, 1814 Ormsby, Thos. Created / Published [1816...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

Battle Statistics

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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Bladensburg

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Source Campaigns of the war of 1812-15 : Bladensburg, which has given its name to the disgraceful action fought August 24, 1814,...
Monday, April 21, 2014

General Tobias Stansbury

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Source The General at Bladensburg: General Stansbury arrived at Bladensburg on the 22d of the month and the Fifth Baltimore Regimen...
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, December 12, 2013

Bladensburg Archaeology....

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...on a site found here  (affiliated with the University of Maryland). Source  Of Bladensburg, Maryland, Battle Map From the B lad...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Rodger's Bastion, Baltimore

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Source From the Friends Of Patterson Park website : On Hampstead Hill, the ridge where the Pagoda now stands, Baltimoreans rallied o...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Captain Gordon's Potomac Raid

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Portrait of Captain Gordon -  Source The Canadian site War of 1812, a biography of naval commander Captain James Alexander Gordon (17...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Barney's Spring

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Source The flight of Stansbury's troops left [Commodore] Barney unsupported in that direction, while a heavy column was hurled agai...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

William Pinkney

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Pre-War:  Pinkney and James Monroe made a futile attempt to devise a treaty between the United States and Great Britain. Source Will...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Excavation At Bladensburg

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From the Washington, D.C. War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission , the Bladensburg excavation photo gallery.
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Attempting To Protect Washington From The British - The Map

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