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In the early morning hours of May 3, 1813, British Rear Admiral George Cockburn launched a brutal attack on the city of Havre de Grace, Maryland. Without mercy for age or infirmity, the British troops plundered and torched much of the town. It was the beginning of the Chesapeake Campaign of the War of 1812, and it would only end with the burning of the capital and the failed siege of Baltimore. Author Heidi Glatfelter traces the attack and the response of the residents of Havre de Grace--from the bravery displayed by John O'Neill, who was taken prisoner by the British, to quick-thinking citizens such as Howes Goldsborough, who found ways to save their homes and those of their neighbors from total destruction. Join Glatfelter as she reveals the stories of a town under siege and a community determined to rebuild in the aftermath.
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NOTES
FINDING HAVRE DE GRACE
1. Montgomery, “Captain John Smith.”
2. Rountree, Clark and Mountford, John Smith’s Chesapeake Voyages, 53.
3. Smith in Captain John Smith, ed. Kupperman, 160.
4. Wright, Our Harford Heritage, 159.
5. Alsop, Province of Maryland, 79.
6. Ibid., 67.
7. Berry, Maryland’s Lower Susquehanna River Valley, 32.
8. Ibid.
9. Alsop, Province of Maryland, 16.
10. Weeks, Architectural History, 12.
11. Graves, In the Midst, 8.
12. Hunt, As We Were, 106.
13. Preston, History of Harford County, 52.
14. Vineyard, “Stage Waggons and Coaches.”
15. Preston, History of Harford County, 49.
16. Vineyard, “Stage Waggons and Coaches.”
17. Semmes, Baltimore, 30.
18. Maryland Journal, December 9, 1785.
19. Weeks, Architectural History, 14.
20. Ibid.
21. Jay, Havre de Grace, iv.
NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIFE IN HAVRE DE GRACE
22. Rountree, Clark and Mountford, John Smith’s Chesapeake Voyages, 232–33.
23. Ibid., 21.
24. Maryland Journal, September 30, 1785.
25. Clark and Mathews, Maryland Geological Survey, 404.
26. Shank, “Origins,” 27.
27. Weeks, Architectural History, 57.
28. Wilmer, Narrative, 6.
29. Ibid.
30. Republican Star, August 22, 1809.
31. Federal Republican and Commercial Gazette, November 6, 1810.
32. Ogden, Rodgers Tavern, 10.
33. Shank, “Rodgers Family,” 17.
34. Hunt, As We Were, 53.
35. Preston, History of Harford County, 252.
36. MHT, HA-538.
37. Preston, History of Harford County, 255.
38. Ibid., 254–57.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. William B. Stokes was the son of Robert Young Stokes, who drew the Stokes map of Havre de Grace in 1781.
42. Paullin, Commodore John Rodgers, 85–86.
43. MHT, HA-763.
44. Paullin, Commodore John Rodgers, 86.
45. Adams, Jared Sparks, 54–55.
46. Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser, January 3, 1798.
47. Preston, History of Harford County, 48.
48. Adams, Slave Manumissions, xi.
WHY WAR?
49. Borneman, 1812, 19.
50. Ibid.
51. Divine, America Past & Present, 240.
52. Hornet, July 4, 1810.
53. Niles’ Weekly Register, March 7, 1812.
54. Borneman, 1812, 31.
55. Hunt, As We Were, 10–11.
56. Divine, America Past & Pre...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Finding Havre de Grace
- Nineteenth-Century Life in Havre de Grace
- Why War?
- Commodore John Rodgers: Hometown Naval Hero
- The British in the Chesapeake
- The Attack on Havre de Grace
- Reaction and Aftermath
- The Burning of Washington
- The Defense of Baltimore
- Rebuilding Havre de Grace
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author