Death Of Major-General Robert Ross

Reminiscences of My Military Life from 1795 to 1818, By Charles Steevens (in Europe):

Chesapeake Bay

Ocean Near Chesapeake Bay (View From Virginia)

Plot New Mischief

Baltimore, Maryland, Map, Circa 1781 (LOC)

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The Tenth Military District

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War Of 1812 Initial Timeline

Note: Outline Per Wikipedia (with revisions)

1812	Jun	Baltimore riots (NPS)
1812	Jun 18	Declaration of war by the United States
1812	Jun 29	Schooners Sophia and Island Packet taken by the British in the St. Lawrence River
1812	Jul 1	United States doubles customs duties
1812	Jul 12	U.S. General William Hull's army invades Upper Canada at Sandwich
1812	Jul 16	Skirmish at River Canard

Joseph H. Nicholson Presided

"Early in 1812 the advocates of war determined on a public expression of their opinions, and on May 16 a called meeting was held at the Fountain Inn in Baltimore City...

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...by supporters of President Madison's administration, over which Joseph H. Nicholson presided. In the course of an address he said: ' No one can be insensible to the great crisis to which the affairs of our country are rapidly approaching."' [Source]

Left Hampton Roads

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William Henry Winder

William Henry Winder in The British invasion of Maryland, (1812-1815):

Charles Stewart "Old Ironsides"

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" Old Ironsides" was saved, repaired, and converted into a school-ship. When the Naval Academy was temporarily removed from Annapolis to Newport, Rhode Island, on account of the Rebellion, the Constitution took her place at the latter station. Her latest commander in the war of 1812- 15, Rear Admiral Charles Stewart, yet [1867] survives, at the age of ninety-one years. He is sometimes called Old Ironsides. [Source - The pictorial field-book of the war of 1812...] 

Stewart's memorial at FindAGrave.

Fort Warburton Destroyed

MARYLAND IN THE WAR OF 1812 has a timeline for Maryland.  One item on the timeline:

Aug. 27. To keep it out of British control, Fort Warburton, Prince George's County, destroyed by U.S. Army.

Name changed from Fort Warburton to Fort Washington. 

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Major General Bennett Riley

A better version of Riley's portrait here.

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Caulk's Field (Across The River From Baltimore)

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A new map of Virginia with Maryland, Delaware...
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Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C.
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General Reed And Caulk's Field

See a blog post about General Reed.

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The Battle of Chaulk's Field from the History of Kent County:

"This battle was fought in the early morning hours of August 31, 1814... ."
"Of the land battles of the war with Great Britain, 1812-1814, the battle of Caulk's Field was of signal importance upon the result of the battle of North Point and the defense of the City of Baltimore (September 12, 1814)."

From the Maryland 1812 blog:  At midnight the British attacked the 21st Regiment upon the farm fields of Isaac Caulk.

Lots of pictures here.

Google Maps - Marker - Caulk's Field Road In Maryland

Sketch Of The Action Fought Near Bladensberg

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Sketch of the action fought near Bladensberg [i.e. Bladensburg], August 24th, 1814

Ormsby, Thos.

Created / Published [1816]

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-  Oriented with north to the right.

-  Pen-and-ink and watercolor.

-  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site...

-  Imperfect: Tears, stains, mounted on cloth.

If There Had Been With Me 2,000 Kentuckians

View Of Frankfort, Kentucky

"Commodore Barney's opinion of the Maryland militia was not a high one."

"At a dinner in his honor, at Frankfort, Kentucky, he said: 'I had the good fortune to be in seventeen battles during the revolution, in all of which the star-spangled banner triumphed over the bloody cross, and in the late war I had the honor of being engaged in nine battles with the same glorious result, except in the last, in which I was unfortunate, though not in fault. If there had been with me 2,000 Kentuckians, instead of 7,000 Marylanders, Washington City would not have been sacked, nor or country disgraced.'" [Source]

Bloody Drama Enacted In Baltimore

Source: Indiana University

Source: Sixty Years In A School-room

Greenleaf's Point Explosion

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"...the British were bent on destroying before they left the district [about 24 August 1814]

"A squad of soldiers was on the line of march toward the foundry while the public buildings were burning. They had reached the bridge thrown over the little creek which separates Washington from Georgetown, when they were called to a sudden halt by a tremendous explosion. Soon after a courier came dashing up at full speed, warning them not to cross the bridge; that the explosion just heard was from Greenleaf's Point, a fort on the opposite side of the Potomac from Washington, recently vacated by the Americans. One hundred and fifty British soldiers had been blown up, their mangled remains flying in every direction.

"The fact was, several barrels of powder had been thrown into a dry well by the garrison before leaving, to keep it from falling into the hands of the enemy. The detachment sent over to destroy the fort were dying of thirst and one of the men threw a torch into the well to ascertain if it contained any water, hence the catastrophe. [Source]

American MacDonalds In The War Of 1812

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Map Of Bladensburg

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1812 In Georgetown

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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27716/27716-h/27716-h.htm#Page_135

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