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This battle ended the final invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812.
Background:
Napoleon I had abducted the throne of France. This allowed Great Britain to send veteran troops to North America in the midst of peace negotiations between the U.S. and Great Britain. The British Commander-in-Cheif and Governor of Lower Canada, Lieutenant-General Sir [...]
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Just a short distance from Gettysburg, Antietam, Monocacy, and Harpers Ferry, nestled somewhat in the middle of all of these major battle sites, lies the town of Frederick, Maryland. It is home to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. There, you can explore 7,000 square fee of life-like exhibits that tell the story of [...]
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Francis Scott Key, a young lawyer from Baltimore, had been asked by the American Government to secure the release of William Beanes, a well-known Maryland Physician, whom had been captured by the British as they were retreating from Washington in August 1814. He was able to free Beanes, but Key himself was held for several [...]
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The War of 1812 was a war on land at at Sea. Here in Michigan, we are all pretty much aware of the infamous battle In September 1813, near the infamous summer hot spot called, Put-In-Bay, Ohio where Commodore Perry defeated the British on Lake Erie….But did you know that soon after, in 1814 Washington [...]
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In December of 1811,Various speeches both for and against Declaration of war against England occurred. The War as previously discussed ,was due to two widely different developments, one being violations by Great Britain of American maritime rights, which we touched on in previous blogs, and the other a long series of depredations by Indians against [...]
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Many wonder why the state of Maryland was so severly split in her loyalty to the Union and the Confederacy. She was considered to be a Southern State and was heavily dependant on slave labor. It was believed she would follow Virginia out of the Union.
Her legislature was overwhelmingly for secession. But, not all of [...]
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