Showing posts with label Flags. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flags. Show all posts
Friday, August 16, 2019

Hull's Surrender

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Source "This demand was received by Hull about 10 o clock in the morning. At this time a court of inquiry was sitting to examine ...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

British Guns Opened On Detroit

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Source The same day that Major Denny evacuated Sandwich the ground he left was occupied by a British detachment, and the erection of b...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Moffat's Military Band

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"In the summer of 1812 there was occasionally  music after supper, at about 6:30 p.m., at the Bat tery flagstaff, or from a band, loc...
Saturday, June 23, 2018

If There Had Been With Me 2,000 Kentuckians

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View Of Frankfort, Kentucky "Commodore Barney's opinion of the Maryland militia was not a high one." "At a dinn...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Maryland, My Maryland

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Source Source See the War of 1812 in Charles County Maryland Muster Rolls on YouTube (screenshot above).
Sunday, September 13, 2015

Bombardment Of Fort McHenry

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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Ganson Assigned To Bear The Flag

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Of Star-Spangled Banner Fame Source A flag is ordered to proceed...to cross over to the Canada shore..... .   Lieut. Col. Walte...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Harrison And Reform Flag

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Jim's Photo Of A Campaign Flag Taken At Point Pleasant, WVA, Museum
Friday, December 6, 2013

William Christy

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Source "A survivor of the War of 1812 and one of the most active and remarkable men of the day when the late civil war broke out...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Flag Still Flying

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While in Piqua he [ Joseph Paxton ] was chosen as a volunteer spy in Captain Leslie Combs 's company of spies. ...during the nig...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

When America Came Into Her Own

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Thus closed a war in which little was nominally gained, but much in reality. By it, indeed, the United States consummated their independ...
Monday, July 1, 2013

Impetus For War

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Source The great mass of the American people hungered for more territory, and they longed to humiliate England by driving her from th...
Friday, March 9, 2012

Retrieving The Flag

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The Tuesday, March 9, 1920, edition of the Flint Journal, contained the following article on Page One: KENTUCKY COMMISSIONS 1812 DESCENDAN...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Francis Scott Key Wrote A Song About It

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Star-Spangled Banner from this website. An interactive version found here !  It's fascinating.