Posted on 08/30/2014 5:56:17 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Begging the pardon of the list for a good article on the 1812 dust up and The Old Line State's history.
I call bushwah! This united the country firmly, especially after we won at Ft. McHenry and the battle of North Point.
Yes...and New Orleans. BUT, burning DC makes it a draw in SOME peoples’ minds.
Yea, a draw?
They came again to take us over. We’re still here.
The war of forgotten battlegrounds.
The battle of the River Raisin near Monroe Michigan was the largest single day casualty count for America in that war. Those killed and wounded were mostly Kentucky Militiamen and some 9 Kentucky counties are named after men who fought here. Revenge was sought under the “Remember the River Raisin” battle cry with a push deep into Canada and the British loss of control of the great lakes.
We tried to take Canada too, and it’s still here.
By any “revisionism”, The Battle Of New Orleans was a not a draw.
from wiki (I think):
Jackson’s army of 4,732 men comprised 968 US Army regulars,[32] 58 US Marines, 106 seamen of the US Naval battalion, 1,060 Louisiana Militia and volunteers (including 462 free people of color), 1,352 Tennessee Militia, 986 Kentucky Militia, 150 Mississippi Militia and 52 Choctaw warriors. Additionally, Jackson had the support of warships in the Mississippi River, including the USS Louisiana, the USS Carolina and the Enterprise, along with the pirate Jean Lafitte and his Baratarians.
At the end of the day, the British had 2,042 casualties: 291 killed (including Generals Pakenham and Gibbs), 1,267 wounded (including General Keane) and 484 captured or missing.[47] The Americans had 71 casualties: 13 dead; 39 wounded, and 19 missing.[4]
ps the British began the events with @7,500 strong
The Brits got their butts handed to them at New Orleans.
hey Hon - they didn’t burn Baltimore, did they?
25 hours of bombardment and the flag was still there, so the Brits up and sailed away
Francis Scott Key, released from being an involuntary observer on one of the warships, went (crawled?) to a nearby pub, ordered himself a well-deserved tall one (too bad no Natty Bo back then), and wrote a somewhat historically significant poem about it!
After the British failed to capture Baltimore they sailed the Chesapeake Bay bombarding towns along the way. One of the towns, St. Michael’s hung lanterns high in the trees. When the British bombarded at night they missed town by firing pover it.
One of my g-g-g-g-g-grandmothers was the sibling of one of the men who commissioned Mary Pickersgill to make that flag... one of my two tenuous connections to "big time" American history.
Mr. niteowl77
When the British bombarded at night they missed town by firing pover it.
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Not completely. There was a hit on a house in St. Michaels, now known as the Cannonball House.
http://www.townofstmichaels.com/history.shtml
Historically unpopular? Don’t we commemorate the defense of Fort McHenry in 1814 at the start of every football game?
And also at Lake Erie and Lake Champlain.
Something politically incorrect in that picture: children weilding “swords”. The liberal state of Maryland will be sure to eliminate all such displays of aggression and would be bullying. lol
Maybe that's just as well, because had we succeeded, we would be the ones having to deal with Quebec.
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