From Wikipedia.
I mentioned that Gen. Edmund P. Gaines ordered Duncan Clinch to attack Negro Fort which resulted in the July 27, 1816, battle.
Edmund P. Gaines (March 20, 1777 to June 6, 1849) was an American Army officer who fought in the War of 1812, the Seminole Wars and the Black Hawk War.
Born in Virginia, he enlisted in the Army in 1799 and was a first lieutenant by 1807. He surveyed the Mississippi Territory and helped lay out the Natchez Trace. While commander of Fort Stoddert, he arrested Aaron Burr in Wakefield, Alabama. After that he took leave from the Army and practiced law.
--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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