And there Iwas never having heard of the good captain until I did the blog entry about the boy in Newburyport, Massachusetts who was run over and killed by a gun carriage during the town's celebration of the Treaty of Ghent.
AND, there is a book written about him. It is called "Holy Terror: Captain William Nichols: A True Story" by Dr.G. Williams Freeman. The author is a sixth generation descendant.
--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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