Showing posts with label Famous People. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Famous People. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Convey An Officer To Barataria

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  The object of that inconsiderable expedition appears to have been to sound the disposition of the in- habitants of the Floridas and Louisi...
Friday, August 20, 2021

General Duncan MacArthur's Raid

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Source Also here: Kentucky In The War of 1812  ( text )
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Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Foxes At Dubuque

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Governor Clark's expedition left St. Louis about May first. At the mouth of Rock river, the Governor says, he met some disaffected Sacs...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Alexander A. Meek To General Gano

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Alexander A. Meek To General John S. Gano  Headquarters Upper Sandusky Jany 18th, 1813. My worthy old friend Genl. Harrison ordered...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Hints To Young Generals By Secretary Armstrong

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Hints to young generals.   by Secretary John Armstrong, written July 1, 1812:
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Saturday, December 5, 2020

Peaceful Coercison By Embargo

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Source December 1807 - Thomas Jefferson attempts "peaceful coercion" of the British with his embargo but it results in econo...
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Monday, November 23, 2020

Vice President Elbridge Gerry

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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

On The 21st Of October

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An account of the Battle of Châteauguay: being a lecture delivered at . ..,  By William Douw Lighthall:
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Hawk Feather Gift From Tecumseh Descendant

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Friday, August 14, 2020

McArthur And Cass

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On the 14th, Hull ordered McArthur and Cass to march with a considerable force to the River Raisin, by an inland trail running back from th...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Attack On Fort Michilimackinac

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Distant View Of Mackinac Island Source "Capt. Charles Roberts to Colonel Baynes: Fort Michilimackinac, 17th July, 1812 . S...
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...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Memoir Of Alexander Macomb

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Shortly after Macomb had entered the encampment beyond the Alleghany, an incident occurred which came near doing him a serious injury. ...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Charles J. Ingersoll, Historian

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Charles Jared Ingersoll papers Collection 1812 ©  The Historical Society of Pennsylvania "Lawyer, politician, and author C...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Captain John Whistler In The Van Buren Papers

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Calendar of the papers of Martin Van Buren ... ,   By Library of Congress. Manuscript Division, Elizabeth Howard West:
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Urbana To Detroit

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From Urbana to the rapids of the Miami of the Lakes, the country belongs to the Indians, and is entirely destitute of roads. Wood Spli...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Colonel Carr

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The home journal., January 27, 1859, Image 2 , (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?: Col. Robert Carr of Philadelphia, was Benjamin Frankl...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

General Proctor And Father Richard

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Thursday, January 23, 2020

A Harrowing Experience For Rachel Knaggs

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An excerpt from the History of the Knaggs family: Source FindAGrave memorial for Rachel Knaggs.
Thursday, December 12, 2019

Grooms Served Under Colonel Butler

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[Stephen F.] Austin to Samuel M. Williams, Mexico, April 29, 1835. * Butler's machinations to injure him. Butler's unpopularity in...