Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Army: Lt Gen the Earl of Wellington (local General) Commander-in-Chief of the Portuguese Army: Marshal William C. Beresford (w) Lt Col William H. De Lancey, Deputy Quartermaster-General (acting as Quartermaster-General)
Pages in category "War of 1812 orders of battle" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Battle of New Orleans order of battle: British
The war in Europe against the French Empire under Napoleon ensured that the British did not consider the War of 1812 against the United States as more than a sideshow. [283] Britain's blockade of French trade had worked and the Royal Navy was the world's dominant nautical power (and remained so for another century).
A first unit of its name was short lived, established just prior the Quasi-War with France, in 1798 and discharged in 1800. [1] The second unit under this designation was activated in 1808. During the War of 1812, it was temporarily designated as the 1st Regiment of Light Dragoons when the War Department created an additional similar regiment ...
The regiment was not fully equipped until December. Purchase of horses had been ordered in March but by September only half the regiment was mounted; many of its mounts were unfit for service. Eustis scattered the regiment from the Ohio River to New England. One company disappeared from the War Department's records. [3]
Detachment, 1st U.S. Dragoons: Ogden (Ogden was not a Dragoon officer and there were no US Dragoons at this battle. Ogden was a New Orleans resident that led a group of mounted local guides. Also missing from the order of battle by Pickles are the Feliciana Dragoons. These, along with the Mississippi Dragoons were the only "dragoons" at the battle)
Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) Battle of Athos: Russian and Ottoman navies: July 1, 1807 War of 1812; Battle of Tippecanoe: US Army, State Militias and Tecumseh's Confederacy: November 7, 1811 Siege of Fort Meigs: American and British forces and Tecumseh's Confederacy: April 28 - May 9, 1813 Battle of Fort George: American and British forces ...
William Eustis resigns as U.S. Secretary of War: 1812 Dec 3 home front James Monroe serves as U.S. Secretary of War 1812 Dec 18 Great Lakes region: Battle of the Mississinewa: Part of a U.S. expedition against Delaware and Miami villages where the Mississinewa River flows into the Wabash River near present-day Marion, Indiana. 1812 Dec 26 ...