He worked in washington, d. C. , lives in annapolis with his two dogs, and is known for his wellreceived book, intrepid sailors. That was named a notable book in 2012 by Naval Institute proceedings magazine. Lets welcome chip reid. [applause] mr. Reid thank you everybody. It is a pleasure to be back here again. Its a real honor to be here as part of the marine corps. I am both an army and marine corps veteran. I saw the light in 1982 and decided to become a man. [laughter] lion and the bay is a joint work. They approached me two years ago about taking on the manuscript which was incomplete. He had passed away prior to getting to what i call the meat of the 1814 campaign, the British Landing at benedict, maryland, the battle for fort mchenry and so on. It had incomplete accounts of joshua barneys flotilla. We will talk about that in a little bit. Most of all, what he did have, which folks in england have suddenly recognized is one of the most detailed accounts of royal Marine Operations
And cold war veteran. That about covers it all. Thats pretty cool. He has cover the wars in iraq and afghanistan, as well as baseball, International Soccer and international piracy. He worked in washington, d. C. , lives in annapolis with his two dogs, and is known for his wellreceived book, intrepid sailors. Int was named a notable book 2012 by Naval Institute proceedings magazine. Ets welcome chip reid [applause] mr. Reid thank you everybody. It is a pleasure to be back here again. Its a real honor to be here as part of the marine corps. I am both an army and marine corps veteran. The light in 1982 and decided to become a man. [laughter] lion and the bay is a joint work. They approached me two years ago about taking on the manuscript which was incomplete. He had passed away prior to getting to what i call the meat of the 1814 campaign, the British Landing at benedict, maryland, the battle for fort mchenry and so on. It had incomplete accounts of Joshua Barneys flotilla. We will talk
Southern portions of the county around 7 22. So, again, a Tornado Warning now in effect until 7 45. Weve had a tornado watch all day. Difference between a watch and a warning, a watch is watching for the potential for storms to develop. A Tornado Warning means we have a tornado that is out there, at least on radar. Let me take a look at this. I want to see how they are picking this up. If it is just on radar or if they have had any issue of this on the ground. I dont have it just yet. Go ahead. The questions that we had, a viewer asked, well, whats the difference between all the colors that were showing here . So, the Tornado Warning that was just issued for areas of st. Marys, Calvert County, that is the bright red that youre seeing here, and that comes straight out of areas around montrose, around westmoreland, around northumberland where there was the earlier Tornado Warning. So, the bright red is your Tornado Warning. Again, were telling folks if youre around leonardtown, 244, mary
Theyre also very different. And i suspect that the truth is somewhere in the middle here, and i couldnt tell you which one is better. And this is another one. This is an image that came out of one of the books that i did and it is showing the british piling up material, and this is in the Capitol Building. And if youll notice, the guy on the left, on the back, hes carrying a backpack that would carry two cases for a congrieve rocket. Rocket and if youll notice the man standing on top of the pile, hes literally taking the projectile material that would have been inside of that rocket and hes sprinkling it over the top and then thats how they would light that fire and here is the actual account and this is by Benjamin Henry latrobe. There was no want of material for the conflagration. For when the number of members of congress was increased the old platform was left in its place and another raised over it giving an additional quantity of dry and loose timber. All the stages and seats of
In the war of 1812, obviously. So its my pleasure to welcome colonel eshelman to the podium. [ applause ] good morning, everyone. Thank you. That was a kind introduction. I have never been called colonel when im been introduced. Thank you very much. I want to add to the accolades expressed about the wonderful job the partners and all the individuals have done to put this symposium together. I have thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope you have as well. We still have an afternoon to go as well. Itis not over and im looking forward to it. Before lunch, which is an important thing for all of us, i have a few words i would like to say about some of the myth that surround washington, d. C. Specifically, im going to talk about three myths. Im going to present them to you in the form of a question. The first one is did the british really burn Washington City . Question number two. Is the white house really called the white house because it was painted white because of the scorch marks when the britis