The Battle of Lundy's Lane: On the Niagara in 1814Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1993 - 342 páginas Brigadier General Winfield Scott, United States Army, regarded the red-coated infantry before him. He had not expected to find the British in strength on this side of the Niagara River. His small, isolated brigade now faced an apparently superior enemy and could not rely on immediate assistance from his divisional commander, Major General Jacob Brown. A lesser man would have been daunted, but Winfield Scott - six feet, five inches tall, deep-chested, stern-visaged, and twenty-eight years old - decided to attack. What followed was one of the bloodiest and most hard-fought military actions in North American history. For nearly five hours, American, British and Canadian soldiers struggled desperately into the night in a close range, vicious battle. As one participant recalled, it was "a conflict, obstinate beyond description." When dawn came, more than 1600 men lay dead or wounded. In his interpretation of a still controversial action, Donald E. Graves fills in the planning and operational background of the Niagara campaign of 1814 - one of the most bitterly contested of military operations of the War of 1812. He narrates the action at Lundy's Lane and provides a thorough examination of the weaponry, tactics, organization, and prominent personalities of the two opposing armies. In what is possibly the most detailed analysis of musket-period combat to appear in print, The Battle of Lundy's Lane will appeal to readers interested in the much-neglected War of 1812, American and Canadian local and regional history, and the development of the U.S. and Canadian armies. |
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... Fort Erie . Jesup and his Twenty - Fifth Infantry were ordered to approach the fort from the north to meet Ripley moving up from the south and prevent the escape of the garrison . As the Twenty - Fifth neared the fort , they came under ...
... Fort Erie . Jesup and his Twenty - Fifth Infantry were ordered to approach the fort from the north to meet Ripley moving up from the south and prevent the escape of the garrison . As the Twenty - Fifth neared the fort , they came under ...
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... forts left Brown in a quandary : Should he move against Fort George , or against the British general ? His senior officers were themselves divided ; Scott and Gardner favored investing the fort until the heavy guns arrived from Sackets ...
... forts left Brown in a quandary : Should he move against Fort George , or against the British general ? His senior officers were themselves divided ; Scott and Gardner favored investing the fort until the heavy guns arrived from Sackets ...
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... Fort George in 1813. When news of Kerr's capture spread through the camp , Leavenworth of the Ninth Infantry and Howard of the Twenty - Fifth waited on Brown and " asked permission to blow out Kerr's brains ( a very civil request truly ) ...
... Fort George in 1813. When news of Kerr's capture spread through the camp , Leavenworth of the Ninth Infantry and Howard of the Twenty - Fifth waited on Brown and " asked permission to blow out Kerr's brains ( a very civil request truly ) ...
Contenido
The Defenders of Upper Canada | 3 |
Opening Moves and Battle at Chippawa | 59 |
Move and CounterMove 624 July 1814 | 73 |
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Otras 14 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
1st Foot 25 July 8th Foot action American ammunition attack battalion bayonet BECHS British army British artillery British guns Brown to Armstrong Buffalo camp campaign Captain casualties Chauncey Chippawa column command Couteur Creek detachment Douglass Drummond to Prevost enemy Erie Facts field fighting fire flank force Fort Erie Fort George Fort Niagara Gardner Papers George Glengarry Light Infantry gunners Hercules Scott hill Hindman Hist Historical Society Ibid Incorporated Militia Indians Jacob Brown James Jesup John Journal June Lake Ontario LDOB Left Division Letter of Leavenworth Lieutenant Colonel Lundy's Lane Major marched Memoir Memoranda Merritt military Miller moved musket musketry Narrative Niagara Norton NYSL officers ordered Parker Papers portage road Porter position Queenston ranks Regiment returned Riall to Drummond Right Division Ripley Ripley's river Sackets Harbor Sketch soldiers Towson troops Twenty-Fifth United Upper Canada volley volunteers William Winfield Scott woods wounded York