Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
The Military General Service Medal (MGSM) was a campaign medal approved in 1847 and issued to officers and men of the British Army in 1848. [note 1] [note 2]The MGSM was approved on 1 June 1847 as a retrospective award for various military actions from 1793–1814; a period encompassing the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Anglo-American War of 1812.
The Chesapeake Bay Flotilla was a motley collection of barges and gunboats that the United States assembled under the command of Joshua Barney, an 1812 privateer captain, to stall British attacks in the Chesapeake Bay which came to be known as the "Chesapeake campaign" during the War of 1812.
When the War of 1812 began, the Regular Army contained four regiments of artillery: the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Regiments of Artillery, and the Regiment of Light Artillery.In March 1814 the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Regiments were combined to form the Corps of Artillery, consisting of forty-eight companies; the Regiment of Light Artillery consisted of ten companies.
The first 44th Infantry Regiment was a regular United States Army regiment of infantry that served during the War of 1812. The 44th Infantry Regiment was on formed 29 January 1813, being recruited in Louisiana. Its colonel was George Thompson Ross of Pennsylvania.
Uniform of the Canadian Voltigeurs. During the War of 1812, George Prevost, the governor general of the Canadas, formed the Volunteer Provincial Corps of Light Infantry or the Voltiguers Canadien. The unit's function was similar to other Canadian Fencibles raised during the conflict, although more specialized in skirmishing and scouting operations.
[3] [4] The unit was retired at the end of the war and soldiers were given tracts of land in Canada. [4] Some of its soldiers also served at the Red River Colony. Some 150 recently discharged soldiers from both the recently disbanded De Watteville Regiment and Regiment de Meuron, still retaining their uniforms would participate in the Pemmican ...
In the years following the War of 1812, many northern states defunded and demobilized their militias. [6] [b] In their place, units of volunteer militia organized themselves. [6] These units, often drawn from members of society, elected their own officers, adopted their own uniforms and customs, and generally financed themselves. [7]