THE WHITE HOUSE-- Burned August 24, 1814. Dolley Madison save the Gilbert Stuart painting of George Washington from the White House where it still hangs.
USS CONSTITUTION-- Britain had a fleet of 600 warships, the US had 17. This is the only remaining ship from either side and still can be seen at Charleston, Massachusetts if you can stand the lines.
ALABAMA-- One of the biggest US victories was at Horsehshoe Bend, now a National Park, 100 miles southwest of Atlanta. Andrew Jackson slaughtered the Creek Red Sticks tribe and secured 23 million acres.
NEW ORLEANS-- Famous for the battle at Chalmette referred to as the Battle of New Orleans.
GREAT LAKES-- Much fighting in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio.
Fort Dearborn, Chicago--destroyed during the war and the massacre.
Fort Mackinac-- captured by the British and still standing.
Battle of Lake Erie 1813. The Peace Monument at Put-In-Bay, Ohio. 352-feet high to commemorate Perry's victory and the peace along the US-Canadian border since the war. Perry's reconstructed flagship, the brig USS Niagara is based at Erie, Pennsylvania.
SACKET'S HARBOR, NY, major US Naval base that fended off a British attack in 1813.
OLD FORT NIAGARA-- base for US invasions of Canada. Captured by the British in 1813.
BATTLE OF PLATTSBURGH, NY-- A US victory here Sept. 14, 1814, thwarted a British invasion.
More Than You Thought. --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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