It is possibly the same storm described by Tannehill hitting the Leeward Islands 7-8 September 1813.
SUMMARY: Based on storm tides at St. Marys and reports from St. Simons Island, the storm is considered a major hurricane for lower Georgia and adjacent coastal waters and as hurricane for Upper Georgia and Northeast Florida.
There was also another hurricane on August 27, 1813, some three weeks earlier. This was was rated as a hurricane for Upper Georgia coastal waters, Lower Georgia coastal waters and Northeast Florida.
Its landfall point was in South Carolina.
The folks along this stretch of U.S. coast must have been wondering "what the hey?"
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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