Showing posts with label Maryland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maryland. Show all posts
Sunday, September 12, 2021

Death Of Major-General Robert Ross

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Reminiscences of My Military Life from 1795 to 1818 ,  By Charles Steevens (in Europe):
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Chesapeake Bay

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Ocean Near Chesapeake Bay (View From Virginia)
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Plot New Mischief

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Baltimore, Maryland, Map, Circa 1781 (LOC) Source
Thursday, July 2, 2020

The Tenth Military District

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Thursday, June 18, 2020

War Of 1812 Initial Timeline

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Note: Outline Per Wikipedia (with revisions) 1812 Jun  Baltimore riots (NPS) 1812 Jun 18 Declaration of war by the United States  1812...
Sunday, June 7, 2020

Joseph H. Nicholson Presided

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"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 th...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Left Hampton Roads

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Sunday, May 24, 2020

William Henry Winder

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William Henry Winder in  The British invasion of Maryland , (1812-1815):
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Charles Stewart "Old Ironsides"

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Source " Old Ironside s" was saved, repaired, and converted into a school-ship. When the Naval Academy was temporarily re...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Fort Warburton Destroyed

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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 Wa...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Major General Bennett Riley

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A better version of Riley's portrait  here . Source
Sunday, September 2, 2018

Caulk's Field (Across The River From Baltimore)

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Source A new map of Virginia with Maryland, Delaware... Repository Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. Di...
Friday, August 31, 2018

General Reed And Caulk's Field

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See a blog post about General Reed. Source The Battle of Chaulk's Field from the History of Kent County : "This battl...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Sketch Of The Action Fought Near Bladensberg

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Source Sketch of the action fought near Bladensberg [i.e. Bladensburg], August 24th, 1814 Ormsby, Thos. Created / Published [1816...
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...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

Bloody Drama Enacted In Baltimore

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Source : Indiana University Source: Sixty Years In A School-room
Friday, May 4, 2018

Greenleaf's Point Explosion

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LOC Source "...the British were bent on destroying before they left the district [about 24 August 1814] "A squad of soldi...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

American MacDonalds In The War Of 1812

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Thursday, August 24, 2017

Map Of Bladensburg

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Friday, July 14, 2017

1812 In Georgetown

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Source http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27716/27716-h/27716-h.htm#Page_135 more for 1812? Used Key Home in 1812