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| Date: | 1812 |
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| Description: | Dagger from an American officer of the war of 1812. Renat was a member of the naval fleet of the Great Lakes which was under the command Oliver Hazard Perr... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military ho... |
| Date: | 1814 |
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| Description: | Fort Shelby, built by the Americans during the War of 1812. In 1814 the fort surrendered to British forces led by Captain Andrew W. Bulger who renamed it F... |
| Date: | 08 27 1814 |
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| Description: | Newspaper article on the "Capture and Destruction of the Capital" relating information on the burning of Washington, D.C. on August 24, 1814. The city was ... |
| Date: | 1814 |
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| Description: | Etching depicting the burning of Washington, D.C. by the British during the War of 1812. In the foreground are a number of soldiers moving toward the Capit... |
| Date: | 02 13 1815 |
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| Description: | Newspaper article declaring peace between the United States and Great Britain at the end of the War of 1812. |
| Date: | 09 20 1814 |
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| Description: | First newspaper printing of "The Star Spangled Banner". Printed six days after the Battle of Fort McHenry, where Frances Scott Key wrote the poem that woul... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of a waist-up seated portrait of Col. John Johnston. Johnston is pictured here as an elderly man; however, he is remembered in Wi... |
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