In late January 1814, Secretary of War John Armstrong ordered Wilkinson to detach a division of 2,000 men to Sackets Harbor and to fall back with his main body of troops to Plattsburgh, New York, on Lake Champlain. The sick and wounded were to be moved to Burlington, Vermont.
Robert Lucas was one of those sick men, but he didn't make it to Burlington as he died February 4, 1814, at French Mills, New York, at the age of 26.
--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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