The Monroe Knights Templar also put on a huge banquet for the veterans and attendees. "Their tables were spread with every luxury, and their guests were feasted, toasted and made merry to an entirely satisfactory degree.
"A quantity of fireworks were provided, to be sent off in the grove in the evening, but owing to an untoward accident the most and best of them were destroyed. In sending off a revolving rocket, it discharged directly into the box containing the best pieces, and these were prematurely discharged and destroyed.
"It was great wonder that the accident did not result in serious damage to those who were engaged in sending off the fireworks, but luckily."
A Close Call. --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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