Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Monday, April 20, 2020

Secretary Of War Armstrong

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Source President James Madison named John Armstrong to his cabinet as Secretary of War on June 14, 1813. Armstrong had served as minis...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

Bloody Drama Enacted In Baltimore

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Source : Indiana University Source: Sixty Years In A School-room
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Endless Minutiae

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 We had yet to learn and put in practice the endless minutiae of the police of the camp which varies according to a thousand circumst...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Role Model For Horatio Hornblower?

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Wikipedia Source -  James Alexander Gordon The Real Hornblower   (from the description at Amazon excerpted below): "Ever s...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

Hull's Ill-Judged Actions

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The  War of 1812  was written by Secretary of War  John Armstrong  and published in 1836.  Here's Armstrong's critique of Gener...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

The Canadians Wanted The Destruction Of Fort Wayne

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Source From the  Richardson book : "The fall of Detroit having secured the tranquility of Amherstburg and its contiguous distr...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Commodore Barney's Flotilla Plan

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Source  (Fiction) An article about   Joshua Barney's Chesapeake Bay Flotilla    can be seen   at a George Mason University site. ...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

General George McClure's Burn

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General George McClure (1777 -  1851 ) Military records concerning U.S. General George McClure were found in the British Military and Nav...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Lieutenant Joseph C. Eldridge

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One of the essays in " THE WAR OF 1812: Writings from America's Second War of Independence " told of "The Death Of Jos...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

My First Impression (Book Edition)

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In March I was contacted by the sponsoring editor of The Library of America's " THE WAR OF 1812: Writings from America's S...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Compiled Northern Theater Casualties

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An article in the Watertown Daily Times (hat tip to NEGHS ) was published December 29, 2011, and sheds light on casualties from War of 18...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Meantime The War Rolled On

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From   The life of John Pendleton Kennedy , a resident of Maryland during the War of 1812 years: Meantime the war rolled on. The papers...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Forays Into Florida

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue

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              A           DICTIONARY              OF BUCKISH SLANG, UNIVERSITY WIT,             AND      PICKPOCKET ELOQUENCE ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Reviewing The Civil War Of 1812

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The Buffalo Rising blog featured a review of Civil War of 1812 , by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor...., and stated this abou...
Friday, April 27, 2012

A Badly Managed War

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From  Leading Events of Maryland History : The military operations of the war were in generally badly managed and very unsuccessful. From...
Friday, April 20, 2012

War of 1812 Fiction For Kids

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Juvenile fiction based upon the War of 1812 are listed at the FernFolio blog , including Treason At York and A River Apart among others.
Friday, March 16, 2012

Compact History Of The War Of 1812

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The War of 1812 by Harry L. Coles was published in 1966.  The book was described as such: "This compact history of the war attempts ...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

War Of 1812 Recommendations From LIT LISTS

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Book recommendations found at Lit Lists  with a link to the Wall Street Journal .