Hi Sloyne
Thanks for this helpful
information... great stuff. One little note of correction, at the time of the Battle of Lundy's Lane, Napoleon was in exile on the Island of Elba and thus
out of commission. His captivity on Elba enabled some 10,000 British troops to be sent to North America, around 4,000 to the Chesapeake under Major General
Robert Ross and 6,000 to be placed under the command of Major General Sir George Prevost in Canada. It was the September 1814 twin defeat of the British
thrusts against Baltimore, after the burning of Washington, D.C., by Ross, and the one down the Champlain Valley by Prevost, which forced the British
government under
Robert Jenkinson, second Lord Liverpool to conclude peace in
Ghent, Belgium, in December. The American victory at New Orleans occurred January 1815 after peace was concluded but not ratified by the government of
President James Madison.
Napoleon's final defeat came at Waterloo after he escaped from Elba and reigned for a 100 days and then was sent into his
final exile on the South Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he died in 1822, allegedly, some claim, by poison administered either by an agent of the French
monarchy or by his British captors.
Chris
P.S., yes, Sloyne, I will start a thread on General Sir Banastre Tarleton
shortly.