Continuing with our look at this early class of West Point Cadets, and largest by far up until then.
Was a Cadet May 27, 1805 to November 14, 1806. Second Lt. Regiment of Artillerists. , 1st lt. Jan. 29, 1811. Served in garrisons at Atlantic posts. Dismissed March 14, 1812, for "Drunkenness of Duty." Died 1813, at age 30.
Before becoming a cadet, he had been an officer in the British Army from which he had retired. Another source says he was discharged for disloyalty, a likely reason because he had been in the British Army and with war clouds on the horizon.
--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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