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To: mo

I had read so about it, but nothing indicating the real scope of it. thanks.

The Battle of Plattsburgh
September 11, 1814
Plattsburgh, New York, Lake Champlain

By James P. Millard

“Victory on Lake Champlain!...14,000 British myrmidons were defeated and put to flight by 5,000Yankees and Green-mountain Boys, on the memorable Eleventh of Sep, 1814...”


50 posted on 07/09/2018 4:44:36 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

The last battle-The cannons that fired on September 11, 1814 set off the Battle of Plattsburgh, the last fight of the War of 1812

https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/last-battle

The final expulsion of the Brits from the shores of the USA

It has been called The Second War of American Independence


51 posted on 07/09/2018 4:59:13 PM PDT by mo
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