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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... Niagara . They were able to gain entrance and , after a short and vicious fight , the fort was in British hands . In the days that followed , Drummond's subordinate , Major General Phineas Riall ( pronounced Ry - all ) , scoured the ...
... Niagara . They were able to gain entrance and , after a short and vicious fight , the fort was in British hands . In the days that followed , Drummond's subordinate , Major General Phineas Riall ( pronounced Ry - all ) , scoured the ...
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... Niagara that Decem- ber . A subordinate who came to know him well described him as " very brave , near sighted , rather short , but stout " and a man " thought by some rather rash , which , by the by , is a good fault in a General ...
... Niagara that Decem- ber . A subordinate who came to know him well described him as " very brave , near sighted , rather short , but stout " and a man " thought by some rather rash , which , by the by , is a good fault in a General ...
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... Niagara River , the peninsula was a major transportation route . Dominating it was the great natural wonder of the falls of Niagara with its towering cloud of spray that , on clear days , could be seen as far as fifty miles away . The ...
... Niagara River , the peninsula was a major transportation route . Dominating it was the great natural wonder of the falls of Niagara with its towering cloud of spray that , on clear days , could be seen as far as fifty miles away . The ...
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