Showing posts with label British Army. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Army. Show all posts
Friday, June 4, 2021

Reinforced By Fusileers

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On the 4th of June our little [British] army was reinforced by the arrival of the 21st Fusiliers, a fine battalion, mustering nine hundred...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Reconnoitering Under McArthur

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On the 14th [of July] a company of militia and a rifle corps, under colonel M'cArthur, were detached to reconnoitre the country. They p...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Visiting Family While Fort Was Captured

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Source  (December, 1813, Entries) "Capt. Leonard, the commanding officer of the fort, was [visiting] with his family. He came very...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

Bayonets Are Trumps

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Source Wikipedia account of the December 19, 1813, capture.
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): ...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Fort Niagara, 1813

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Source "The burning of Newark was a wicked and cruel act and drove the British to take a swift and barbarous vengeance. During th...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Forts And Soldiers

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Source
Saturday, August 5, 2017

Stephen Foster's Father

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Biography, songs and musical compositions of Stephen C. Foster, Authors: Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864, Foster, Morrison, 1823-1904: ...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Disgraceful Conduct

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Source "...the disgraceful conduct of many of the frontier inhabitants who continued regularly to supply the enemy with every...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

British Military Uniforms

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Source
Friday, January 6, 2017

Louisiana Landing

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Source
Monday, August 22, 2016

Madness To Continue At Credit Island

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"To chastise the perfidious Sacs, became at once the duty of Governors Edwards and Clark, and Major Zachary Taylor was selected for th...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

Immediate Surrender

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Rock Formation On Mackinac Island Source 17th July, 1812. Capitulation agreed upon between Captain Charles Roberts, commandi...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Disapproval Of The Common People

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Furthermore, it is a safe conjecture that the common people of Great Britain did not approve of the use of Indians in the British...
Friday, February 12, 2016

Withstood The British

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"A hundred years are many years too many for a nation such as this to harbor hate against an ancient foe. The British soldiers i...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Incautiously Advancing

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War Of 1812 Soldiers By A Fire (Not In Canada) Journal and Transactions...:  "The surprise was tolerably complete but our tro...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Apparent Even To The Enemy

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Unknown Source The New Nation Grows...  included a section entitled, "A Cowardly Commander Surrenders Detroit." "The...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

British Battery At The Battle Of Niagara

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Source
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

British Army Landing In New Orleans

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Source
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

A Substitute In The Army

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Source Rev. Thomas Henry, Christian Minister, York Pioneer, and Soldier of 1812 , was written and published by his daughter-in-law, ...