Ezra Dean was appointed an ensign in the Army at age 19. (I thought ensign was a Navy rank.) He received honors for his brave and gallant service at the September 17, 1814, sortie by Americans from Fort Erie, Upper Canada. He was also at the Battles of Chippawa and Bridgewater and his regiment was in the advance at Queenstown Heights later in September 1814.
All of this came before he was even at the age of 20.
At the close of the war, he was put in command of a revenue cutter in Lake Champlain for two years.
He resigned after that and was assigned to the corps of government engineers and spent several years establishing the boundary lines between Maine and the province of New Brunswick, Canada.
--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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