Limits. We passed through the map room, socalled because theres a map of europe over the mantelpiece and it shows the swastika symbols which plot the nazis theres a Little Medicine chest nearby about so big. And its got holes for vials of medicine and you can pull out the drawers. 1 in 1939, a canadian wrote to president roosevelt and his name was archibald canes. And he said, my grandfather was a paymaster aboard the british warship devastation which came up the Potomac River at that time and laid siege to alexandria and oversaw the raiding of the warehouses of Agricultural Produce. But i checked it up. Thomas canes was the paymaster of the devastation but none of the crew set foot in washington. So either he exchanged booty with another briton or archibald canes the canadian is mistaken as is the white house. Well, we then went to see the portrait of George Washington. They took away the rope that keeps you about 20 feet away and then for the first of countless times i saw the artis
With security established, the first lcm was signaling to come in. Johnston lent a hand in tying it to the bank. The battalion was now ready to begin its basic mission, construction of the sdc post following the plan drawn up by johnston and his counterpart. The wall of the triangular post would be of mud, would become almost hard as concrete when it dried. A blockhouse was constructed at each corner of the triangle. Captain kahn personally supervised many phases while johnston was everywhere, observing and advising. One of his recommendations was for use of conner is tina wire. Their joint plan also included the digging of a most surrounding this entire post. Construction was inter erupted by fire from the v. C. S. Casualties were sustained by both sides. This sdc soldier received mortar fragments and an armored mortar killed this soldier. Viet cong harassing fire during the posts construction led to a disagreement between adviser and counter part when johnston recommended clearing fi
Best guesses. But of course the numbers that the indians had operated from a far smaller demographic base so, the impact of heavy losses is going to be much greater proportionately with indians. So the indians lost a great many warriors particularly but also women and children in starvation as a result of the war. And that made it all easier for americans after 1815 to remove some of these people, ship them further west so they ultimately end up on reservations in indian territory. This did facilitate american expansion across the continent. Then on top of that i suppose you can throw in property dam e damages a result of british raids, captures of sea merchants, men, things like that. Its probably impossible to put a precise figure on that. The british captured a few american merchants in the period, but actually americans also captured a good many british merchants. I think its impossible to put a figure on that. But if we say that human damage is necessary, the greatest any war in
200 years ago on august 24th, 1814, British Forces burned the capitol building, president s house, and most federal buildings. Next, author of through the perilous fight uses the boat to take us on a river tour of the burning of washington. This program is about 90 minutes. Ive had a boat on the potamic, oh, about 30 years. Its a great way to see the city. It looks really like a different city as seen from the water. Lots of people think of the potamic as an obstacle to cross on the way to d. C. , like a commuter obstacle, but its the reason that the city is where it is, and its one of the most remarkable urban rivers in the country, i think. Well, were in the middle f the river off port washington, maryland, about eight or nine miles south of washington. More than anything, this the waterways really define the attack on washington and the ultimate attack on baltimore. This british were really making good use of the waterways, chez peak bay, the rivers, and by 1813, the bay had pretty
And the constitution that will reflect adaptability and great persuasion mad sentence had. An interesting capstone to two days of i think what we all can agree has been just a tremendous group of presentations. So the first speaker that will be coming up this afternoon is kenneth r. Bowling. Kenneth received his phd from the university of wisconsin. His specialty is the creation of the is all about the creation of the federal government during the revolution. Hes been very active and interested in particularly researching the seat of government. Hes been the author of many book and articles. Throughout most of his professional life, hes been the coeditor of documentary history of First Federal congress. I do want to say one thing about one of his books, which i think is a real classic now, thats the creation of washington, d. C. , which is published back in 1991. If anybody wants to know about behind the scenes and proceedings and meetings and all the things that went on in terms of th