"Gunboats ashore shouldn't be too damaged, a few new boats, 3 or 4 cables and anchors-- some canvas and carpenter work.
"The Gun Vessels and almost every Vessel on shore lay in the street.
"No. 6 lost rudder and channels.
"Nos 160 and 165 the ironwork of their rudder.
"The Saucy Jack, Privateer of Charleston, Laying Ready to sail is now laying high and dry on a marsh that must be at least five feet above the line of Low Tide. She draws 14 feet, seven feet being the Common Rise.
"The town has suffered much. Seven inhabited houses blown down but no lives lost.
"Fernadina has 20 houses blown down and every vessel in port drove on shore except a Swedish brig. Considerable amount of mercantile property destroyed."
It Was Sure a Bad 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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