He returned to the Army in 1809 as colonel of the Light Dragoons.
Leonard Covington commanded Fort Adams on the lower Mississippi River and participated in the 1810 take over by the United States of the Republic of West Florida in today's Florida Parishes in Louisiana.
In the War of 1812, he was promoted to brigadier general in August 1813 and mortally wounded at the Battle of Crysler's Field and died three days later at French Mills, New York.
He has lots of places named after him.
--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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