Showing posts with label News Articles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News Articles. Show all posts
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Memorial To Honor Sailors Lost In War Of 1812

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Oak Hill Cemetery , Prattville, Alabama (Either Section I or J) Excerpt from the Prattville [Alabama] Progress, published April 11, 1...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

A Pre-Dawn Sneak Attack

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Source "On April 7, 1814, a body of 200 sailors and marines ascended the Connecticut landed at Pettipaug (or Pautopaug Point) ab...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Mr. And Mrs. Bacon

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Source Historic Vincennes A synopsis of  Mrs. Lydia Bacon 's story was found at the Central Michigan Library's Clarke Lib...
Saturday, July 5, 2014

Whistler's Orders

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Source  (Artillery At An Unknown Location) The Canada batteries were in the same place with those which had been erected on the 5th o...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

Soldiers Buried At Thames Battlefield

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From   The battle of the Thames: in which Kentuckians defeated the British, French ... : Mound of Battlefield of the Thames where t...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Battle Of Wild Cat Creek

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What Wikipedia has to say about the Battle of Wild Cat Creek. A recent newspaper account : "The Indians ran into a ravine. The Am...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Embarked In Smuggling

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The war of 1812 was not wholly popular with the inhabitants of the coast towns of Maine. The embargo Act of April 4 , and the declarat...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Victory On September 11th

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Source  (Battle Of Plattsburgh Illustration, Page 60) From Historic Lakes, The Battle of Plattsburgh ,  in four parts, culminating...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Remember The Raisin

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Here's an article from the Smithsonian Magazine.
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

The Story Of A Sailor And His Commodore Ancestor

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Source  of Arthur Sinclair's Portrait A news article entitled   Sailor finds War of 1812 ancestor's grave   was published in t...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

Some Canadian Pensioners

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From the  NIAGARA HISTORICAL SOCIETY NO. 27 : PRISONERS FOR WAR LOSSES, Found in Niagara Spectator, May 23d, 1817 Supplementary list ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Did Canada Win The War Of 1812?

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According to this article  in the National Post, an U.S. historian admits that Canada won the War of 1812: "Johns Hopkins University ...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

A Cannonball In A Pear Tree

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Source Within the palisade of a small fort in Detroit , on what is now the corner of Woodbridge and Griswold streets, there stood in ...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Compiled Northern Theater Casualties

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An article in the Watertown Daily Times (hat tip to NEGHS ) was published December 29, 2011, and sheds light on casualties from War of 18...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Acker's Service Noted

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From the Livonia Gazette at Fulton History : Source After the colonies gained their independence, there was still the ever-present ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Captain Gray And The River Raisin

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Photo By Jim Taken During A Visit To The River Raisin Battlefield From the Examiner, an article about Kentuckians who fought for Mic...
Monday, February 4, 2013

Archaeology In Caulk's Field

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From Yahoo News, Battlefield from War of 1812 Uncovered Intact Beneath Maryland Cornfield : History is still very much with us today as ...
Friday, December 21, 2012

British General Sheaffe

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Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe , Bart. Source General Sheaffe was at Queenston Heights . An  article  was published about General Sheaffe...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

The Path Of General Hull's Army

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A map showing the route of General Hull's army in green and (scout) Robert Lucas's route in red: Source From the Detroit New...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

A Conflict Still Most Forgotten?

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An interesting Slate Magazine article entitled Happy 200th Birthday, War of 1812 (A primer on America’s most bumbling, most confusing, an...