Showing posts with label Washington D.C.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Washington D.C.. Show all posts
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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Source Source
Saturday, September 14, 2019

D.C. Area (General Ross's Route)

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Source
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Nathaniel Champe And His Snare Drum

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Source Archive Grid listed the Nathaniel Champe papers, 1792-1870, as part of the Detroit Public Library's collection....
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Quin Heironymous

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United States Registers o... the U.S. Army, 1798-1914  029-030, 1815 May-1821 Jun, D-H: Source Quin's sister, Julia, wrote ...
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...
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...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Map Of Bladensburg

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Source
Saturday, August 5, 2017

Stephen Foster's Father

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Biography, songs and musical compositions of Stephen C. Foster, Authors: Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864, Foster, Morrison, 1823-1904: ...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Campaign Of The War Of 1812 (Washington Vicinity)

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Source
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Reply By Kosciusko Armstrong

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Reply to Kosciusko Armstrong's Assault Upon Col. McKenney's Narrative of the . .., by Thomas Loraine McKenney: ...Narative o...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Kosciuszko Armstrong Defends His Father

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Some background on the controversy regarding John Armstrong found here . "...[Armstrong's] attention has lately been called to ...
Friday, February 26, 2016

Records To Research In Virginia

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Excerpts from the Library of Virginia, Research Notes #19 : "Records housed at the Library of Virginia may help document War of 181...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Firewood From Arlington

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Source The winter of eighteen hundred, following the invasion of Washington by the British, was so severe that loaded wagons could p...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Burning Washington

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Psychological Warfare ? Source  - View of White House Circa 1799 At 6 o'clock, after a rest of two hours, the British resumed ...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Ships In Ports

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Source  Page 466 "...[Captain David] Porter was forced (September 7) to come to port for water and stores...". ...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

A Post-War Perspective

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Maumee River, Ohio (Near Lucas's Territory) From the Introduction to the Robert Lucas Journal : The War of 1812, beneficial as...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Captain Gordon Approaching Alexandria

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The terror struck into the good people of our city, by the capture and conflagration as aforesaid, rolled on in such conglomerating flood...
Monday, December 8, 2014

William Gray Simms

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Tyler's quarterly historical and genealogical magazine, Volumes 1-2 : William Gray Simms was born in 1795 and died in 1867. ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Claims From Washington Burning

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Digested Summary and Alphabetical List of Private Claims which ..., Volume 2 List of Private Claims Presented to the House Of Repre...