From the June 24, 2013, Cincinnati.com "Column: Boone County played role in War of 1812" by Tom Schiffer.
"War of 1812 was really a 'Kentucky War,' and along with it a Boone County War."
Kentucky interests were at stake. and it wasn't from British impressment of American sailors. There were many raids on Kentucky settlements by Indians, aided and abetted by the British. Men, women and children murdered, captured and carried into slavery. Cabins were burned down, livestock killed and crops destroyed.
In 1810, Kentucky's population was 406,511, even more than Ohio which had 230.700. Boone County was the oldest county in the state, founded in 1798. In 1810, it had a population of 3,608, more than double its 1800 one.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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