by Peter Snow
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2) Articles
Arnold, James Riehl, ‘The Battle of Bladensburg’, Records of the Columbia Historical Society, vol. 37–8 (1937) pp. 145–68
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George, Christopher T., ‘The Family Papers of Major General Robert Ross, the Diary of Colonel Arthur Brooke and the British Attacks on Washington and Baltimore in 1814’, MHM, vol. 88 (1993) pp. 300–16
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Hoyt, William D., ‘Civilian Defense in Baltimore, 1814–15’, MHM, vol. 39 (1944) pp. 199–224, 293–309
Hunter, M., ‘The Burning of Washington, Diary’, New York Historical Society Bulletin, 8 (October 1925) pp. 80–3
Irwin, R. W., ed., ‘The Capture of Washington in 1814 as Described by Mordecai Booth’, Americana, no. 28 (January 1934) pp. 9–27
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M
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Pakenham, Valerie, ‘Sir Edward Pakenham and the Battle of New Orleans’, Irish Sword: The Journal of the Military Society of Ireland, vol. 9 (1969–70) pp. 32–7
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Sheads, Scott S., ‘Joseph Hopper Nicholson: Citizen-Soldier of Maryland’, MHM, vol. 98 (2003) pp. 133–51
Sheads, Scott S., ‘Two Sidelights’, MHM, vol. 84 (1989) pp. 252–8
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3) Other archive material
American State Papers, US Congress, Military Affairs 16, Capture of the City of Washington, Report to the House of Representatives, 29 November 1814, ordered by the 2nd Session of the 13th Congress; online at http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=016/llsp016.db&recNum=529
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Booth, Mordecai, Letters to Tingey, National Archives, Washington, DC
Bowlby, Captain Peter, of the 4th King’s Own, Diary, National Army Museum, London, typescript
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Brown, Corporal, 21st Fusiliers diary, Museum of Royal Scots Fusiliers, Edinburgh
Cockburn, Rear Admiral George, Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, MS Dept
Cockburn, Rear Admiral George, Memoir of Services, National Maritime Museum Library, Greenwich, MS Dept
Cochrane, Vice Admiral Sir Alexander, Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, MS Dept; also available at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Evans, George de Lacy, ‘Memorandum of operations on the shores of the Chesapeake in 1814’, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Few, Frances, Diary, Georgia Dept of Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga
Fulford, Henry, Correspondence: see Marine, British Invasion of Maryland
Gallatin, Mrs Albert, Letters, New York Historical Society
Jefferson, Thomas, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
McElroy, Rev. John, Papers and recollections, Georgetown University Library, Special Collections
Malcolm, Admiral P., Letters, Clements Library, University of Michigan
National Archives, Kew, London, War Office documents 1814
Nourse, C. J., Correspondence, Nourse Family Papers, University of Virginia
Pickering, Timothy, Letters, Pickering Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
Rodgers, Minerva, Letter to John Rodgers, Rodgers Macomb Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Ross, Major General Robert, Papers and letters, PRONI D2004, Belfast
Shiner, Michael, Diary/papers, all online at Naval Historical Society website http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/shinerdiary.html and http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/NHC/shiner/shiner_diary.htm#diary
Smith, General/Senator Samuel, Papers and letters, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, MS Dept
US newspapers: Virginia Patriot, National Intelligencer, Baltimore Patriot, Baltimore Whig, Niles’ Register, Federal Republican, Boston Yankee, etc. are available online on Newsinhistory.com
Webster, John, Account of 1814 campaign: see Marine, British Invasion of Maryland
Winchester, James, James Winchester Papers, Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville
Illustration Credits
Courtesy of Architect of the Capitol, Washington: (painting by George B. Matthews after Gilbert Stuart).
Benson J. Lossing The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812, 1868
Benson J. Lossing The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812, 1868
Benson J. Lossing The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution vol I, 1859
Brown University Library, Rhode Island/Bridgeman Art Library
Courtesy of Stephen Campbell
© Chicago History Museum/Bridgeman Art Library: (painting by Alonzo Chappel c.1859).
© Corbis Images: (painting by John Vanderlyn c.1816)
© Corbis Images: (painting by James Herring after John Vanderlyn)
© Corbis Images: (drawing by George Munger, 1814)
© Corbis Images: (photo Paul A. Souders)
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De Agostini Picture Library/A. de Gregorio/Bridgeman Art Library: (painting by Anne Marguerite Hyde de Neuville, c.1818).
Mary Evans Picture Library: (engraving by J. Cochran, c.1835, after Thomas Lawrence).
© The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California / Bridgeman Art Library: (painting by Philip Tilyard, c1825).
Library of Congress/Prints and Photographs Division, Washington DC: (drawing by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, between 1814-1820)
Library of Congress/Prints and Photographs Division, Washington DC: (drawing by George Munger, 1814)
Library of Congress/Prints and Photographs Division, Washington DC: (cartoon published by S.W. Fores London, 1814)
Library of Congress/Prints and Photographs Division, Washington DC
Library of Congress/Prints and Photographs Division, Washington DC: (cartoon by William Charles, c.1814).
© Collections of Maine Historical Society: (daguerreotype, c.1840).
Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society/Baltimore City Life Museum Collection/Museum Department: (Image ID CA682 painting by Rembrandt Peale c.1817)
Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society/Baltimore City Life Museum Collection/Museum Department: (Image ID CA681 painting by Rembrandt Peale, 1817)
Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society/Baltimore City Life Museum Collection/Museum Department: (Image ID CA684 painting by Rembrandt Peale, 1817)
Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society/Baltimore City Life Museum Collection/Museum Department: (Image ID CA 683 painting by Rembrandt Peale, c.1817-18).
Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society/Museum Department: (Image ID 1939.11.1 painting by Thomas Ruckle Sr, c.1814).
Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society/Special Collections: (Image ID GPVF photograph by W. Ashman, 1876).
Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society and the National Park Service, Maryland, NPS/© Richard Sc
hlecht, 2011: (detail).
© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London: (painting by Jon James Halls c.1817)
© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London: (engraving by T. Blood, 1814)
© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London: (painting by Thomas Musgrave Joy, 19th century).
Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Maryland: (frontispiece, James Ewell’s The Medical Companion 1847, 10th edition).
National Museums Northern Ireland: (painting attributed to Martin Cregan, c.1838).
© National Portrait Gallery, London: (painting by William Charles Ross c. 1840).
© Collection of the New-York Historical Society/Bridgeman Art Library: (painting by Bass Otis, c. 1817)
© Collection of the New-York Historical Society/Bridgeman Art Library: (engraving by John Bower, 1814)
© Collection of the New-York Historical Society/Bridgeman Art Library: (painting by Asher Brown Durand, 1833).
Peter Newark American Pictures/Bridgeman Art Library
Peter Newark American Pictures/Bridgeman Art Library
Peter Newark American Pictures/Bridgeman Art Library
Private Collections: (engraving by C. Turner, 1824, after William Beechey)
Private Collections: (painting © James Brereton/photo Bridgeman Art Library)
Private Collections
Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island, Gift of the Artist: (painting by Charles Bird King, c. 1829).
The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum, Winchester.
White House Historical Association 21 (White House Collection)
White House Historical Association 5720: (painting © Tom Freeman 2004).
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Albion, HMS
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