Where at the museum in Northern New York on lake champlain. Today, ive got something to show you that is very rare. The militia had deployed from the state of new york, and there were 2500 asked to come to fight the british as they crossed the border, but only 700 showed up. Captain martin bacon, the son of a colonel in the militia, had decided that he had all these weapons and know when to use them. Since the arsenal for the militia was in the basement of st. Johns academy, he went upstairs to see the reverend, and he asked to address the class. The class consists of boys and girls, of course, teenagers. He said to the boys, your s have all gone forward to fight the british, and you are here. You could really help out. I got plenty of weapons down stairs. If you volunteer to come with me and come downstairs and get these weapons, i will show you how to shoot them and how to do the military drill, and this afternoon, we will go out and join the militia, and we will defend these girls a
Visits n artifacts museums in historic places. 2 200 years ago, forces clashed 2 1 2 hours near Cumberland Bay near plattsburgh, new york. Next, we travel to plattsburgh where retired army david fitzenz the author of the final invasion war of 1812 takes us to the battle. He goes to kilo occasions to story. He pilot, joseph baron, ship, september 11, 1814. Attle of plattsburgh in Cumberland Bay. You know, this is a battle history. St to american if the first 100th anniversary, t was known by everyone this was a huge celebration. People knew how important the battle of platts burge was. In the meantime, things have changed. That poem became the national anthem. Center of a in the populated area and people have been taught what took place there. There was lace important but it was a diversion. The real battle was up here. The british can take plattsburgh, theres no troops between here and washington, d. C. Theres no american the cavalry is not coming. And with plattsburgh gone, they can s
So what that means is that as early as the spring of 1811, madison was considering very seriously the need to go to war with Great Britain. And this is seven months before the 12th congress and the war hawks even meet in washington. They would continue with these policies for as long as it took r took for them to end this abomination of the affairs of europe. Now, this was 1811. In 1811, nobody was predicting that Napoleon Bonaparte would be gone. You might have made that prediction after 1812 and 1813, but in 1811, nobody was kournting kourn counting on napoleon going away any time soon. He decided he had no other option than to prepare for war against Great Britain. It took this decision weeks and weeks before congress knew what policies that might have to pass judgment. Maybe its spoke man worked its way through committees and votes and the house of representatives as congress prepared for war in the First Six Months of november late after november of 1811. But the primary movement
College of the ozarks, it really is my pleasure to be here. When i was invited to come here about eight months ago, i could not give a definitive answer whether i could make it or not. There was a chance i would be invited to ground zero up in new york or back to shanksville, pennsylvania, or maybe even participate in some of the memorial ceremonies over at the pentagon. Ill tell you the decision i made to come here to be part of this service in this college with this group of students was the best decision i ever made. Having walked around this campus today, meeting many of you visiting classrooms and seeing this College Campus theres no doubt im going to bring my wife and my family back sometime in the future. And thats a real testament to you. Once again, i am very honored and pleased to be here. September 11 two thousand one, was a day that changed my life forever, that changed americas life september 11 2001. Im going to go through a powerpoint presentation, which is going to outl
Made america rich. Museumhe cochair of the and serves on the smithsonian council. An advisory he has been the museums president and ceo since 2009. He has established several new initiatives including the center for Financial Education and Museum Finance academy. He has curated and worked on over half a dozen exhibits and displays including our current exhibit commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the federal reserve. Today, david will explore how one of the treasurys greatest leaders help fight the war of 1812. I will now turn the program over to david cowen. [applause] thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about the war of 1812. We are in the bicentennial of the events of the war of 1812. We will break it down into three different sections. We will have the background of what led us into the war. We will then do the war itself capable to the first two parts quickly. And we will get into the main event of what we will discuss today, the financing of the war of 1812. Us