Turks and Caicos are British Islands in the Bahamas Chain, northeast of Cuba.
They have put out a stamp honoring both Admiral Alexander Cochrane and the HMS Albion.
The Albion was stationed off Chesapeake Bay, part of a force that harried the coastline of that bay during the War of 1812.
The Albion operated all the way up the Potomac and Patuxent rivers destroying large amounts of American shipping as well as U.S. government property.
This operation ended when peace was declared in 1815.
--Brock-Perry
No comments:
Post a Comment