There were 15 members of this, the largest class to graduate from West Point since its first class in 1806. Of them, one was killed in battle, Eleazor D. Wood.
Five more died during the War of 1812: William Partridge, Prentiss Willard, Joseph Proveaux, Robert Lucas and John D. Wyndham.
One, Pascal Vincent Bouis, died before the war in 1811.
There were quite a few French names in the list, probably reflecting an attempt by the government to get persons in the newly acquired Louisiana Territory into the the Army.
They were Pascal Vincent Bouis, Auguste Chouteau, Charles gratoit and Joseph Proveaux and possibly Louis Loramier.
--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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