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Magazine Article
LAST STAND at BLADENSBURG
2014
Overview
P.S. Marine Corps Private Charles Dechard stood next Captain Samuel Miller, watching with a mixture of horror and rage as the American army defending Washington, D.C., disintegrated around them. Fat Prize, Thin Defenses Captain Miller's Marines were part of a hastily collected American army of 6,000 men under Brigadier General William H. Winder that gathered on 24 August 1814 at the little town of Bladensburg. [...]more men arrived; Lieutenant Colonel Jacinth Laval and his 125 regular Army dragoons were placed on the left flank, while a battalion of 350 regulars under Colonel William Scott, two regiments of District of Columbia militia under Brigadier General Walter Smith, and a regiment of Maryland militia formed a third line.6 'Precious Few Fighting Men' Winder didn't place his troops on the battlefield.
Publisher
United States Naval Institute
