Show TC two fe a of AT hared W I 1 0 IL 0 6 I 1 0 09 3 V x K maj bo va 4 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON t 1101 IAL gateways gate to two heroes ot of the war of 1812 are soon to be arec ted near the scenes of their exploits at madison barracks sacketts Sac ketts har bor N I 1 it if arrangements now be being 1 ng negotiated between the society ot of the NA A ar of 1812 and the war department are completed successfully one will be r tl ti e name of gen jacob brown and will kiy tardy honor to an officer who Is comparatively unknown to n ost americans but aho who because of his deab in a war in wl ich there viere a ere mole moie conspicuous failures than conspicuous successes es among ameri amerl can generals de ei enes es remembrance the oti er cr will bear the name of gen zebulon montgomery pike mole moie noted as an explorer than as a fighter but a demote 1 patriot in the truest truest sense of the word and an on oil er whose sl oit ait life was crowded with valuable service to his courtry coultry and death during tie NN ar of 1812 was v as one of america americ is s great looses in that conflict general brown s career is something of a para dox he ile was nas born of quaker parents in bucks county a may 9 1 73 being thrown upon his oin ie resources sources at the age of sixteen aten 1 I en his fati batler er lost his property brown bronn n secured a good education by h s o own ovin vin eferts and became a school deacler teace er at the age of elgh eighteen teen kafter fter a short career as a surveyor surn beyor in olio 01 to he went back to school teaell ing ng in new ew yolk and then begin tl e study of liw nw not find ng this to his liking I 1 e became a farmer in Te jefferson fferson county N Y and in 1809 aas appo anted colonel of a militia regiment at the outbreak out bieak of tt tl e war alvar of 1812 the governor of new ew toik aik oik male mate 1 lim im a brigada brigader er general of militia and entrusted to lim the important corn com inand of resisting tie british invasion Inva slon of that state gen jacob brown tl ough of quaker descent was mas an excellent fighter and adi admirable nimble leader not only at ogdensburg and sackett Sac ketts s harbac but also at fort lort erie chippewa Clipp Clip peNNa ewa lundy s lane and elsewhere according to the sketch of him in the winning of freedom in the lale late Un university hersity press pres series ahe pageant 0 of f america it de clares fertl er that he w v as a i v ery fine example of the best type of keen and capable militiaman developed by the w i ar into a rate all round soldini and then turned into an equally good reg ular he ile proved it during the second niagara campaign in 1833 1813 alen wl en general dearborn born corn com mander of ta tie e american regular army delai departing ting from the authorize autho 1 plan of campaign and lead leid ing an ill advised id expedition toward the western estern A end of lal e ontario left his base at so sacketts Sac chett ketts s habibur hat bor ta tie e key to central N isaev e v york exp sed to the enema fortunately however sacketts Sac ketts was commanded by general brown although I 1 e had hid only a small garrison to hold the post I 1 revolt at ingston bing ston promptly took adan advantage tage of the eunity I 1 is enemy had gh given en him davs the batt eai t two days after dearborn I 1 ad attacked fort lort george prevost misi addled an assault on sackett Sac ketts s harbor with a strong force of regulars jacob brown as morgan had done at cowpens ceplo deployed ed his militia in front backed by a thin line of regulars the ill trained state troops promptly fled but then the regulars falling back to tl e defense t f tl e barracks and blockhouse fought off tl e british with heavy loss so general brown broun established his reputation as a skillful of aicer and a fighter who would not accept defeat in february 1814 general brown bronin who aho had by this time beacone e a regular army officer received ed his first independent command an excellent sum mary of his campaign Is given in the pageant volcue blui ie previously referred to as follos for once most of the american army was given a period of thorough training before being put into the ft ld moreover experience in campaign ins ing had produced many seasoned veterans thus when on july 3 brown threw his army across the niagara river and took fort erie without a fight he commanded a force of officers and men unlike any that america had hitherto produced during this war two days later after pushing rapidly northward brown fought and won a general en ga gement at chippewa A bold attack complete response to trained officers the use of the bayonet with which the americans were now completely armed are the words of that very candid critic major ganoe in the history of the united states army some imperfectly trained militia broke at the first shock but when the british regulars ad danced in force the american regulars though not in much greater numbers stood fast maneuvered exceedingly cee well fired with precision and barg i arged home wi with h victorious effect cl however was in a c sense little more tra a pro pre skirmish broens bro s real e was as to wrest the pr celesa celess niagara peninsula t fro n the enemy but to do so involved the taking of i ort george and involved co operation with V fr nt A by cha ies ellrow arom ofria ie 5 cara 9 07 I 1 ya ia aw edrul ly I 1 chauncey the american naval corn com mander on lake ontario for god gods bake sake let it me see you was brown s I 1 urgent message to chauncey chaunc ey who re bained at sackett a harbor but chauncey did not come so the 1 british were free to move at will by water along the shores of lake on tario the battle of lundy a lane a little more than a mile from niagara falls was the result of a maneuver forced upon brown by chauncey a s failure to appear it was a bloody and stubbornly fought engagement begin ning in the afternoon atter noon and carried tar far on into that ng midsummer night it was in truth a drawn battle having fought like the british to ex ha the americans retired to their camp at chippewa tor for water and supplies ripley corn com banded tl e final phase tor for both brown and scott were badly wounded liter lter on the americans withdrew to port fort erie which brown had wisely begun to strengthen the very day he took look it brow brons n s services in this war won for him the thanks of congress with a gold medal emblematic emble mati cal of his bib triumphs and in 1821 he became the ranking general of the armies of the united states he died in NN washington rebr february uary 24 1898 1828 and was as buried in the congressional cemetery in that city if the war of 1812 brought to brown well merited recognition at the time c even cen en though I 1 fame pime has been somewhat dimmed by the passage ge of years it brought t death and the end of an unusually promising career to gen zebulon mont gomery pike for he was killed at lork novy now loconto lo then the capital of upper canada 0 i april 27 1813 during the second niagara cam laign an attack upon loik had been decided upon by tl e american in lutary authorities as the first move in that campaign on april 20 1813 general dearborn ed on board commodore Chaunc Chaunce ev 3 s fleet about 1 00 troops under the im mediate command of Bil gadler general pike whose promotion to this lank had bad been made march 12 but was not as yet confirmed the fleet reached bork orl on the morning of april 27 general dearborn remained with the fleet fleet con aiding the immediate command of the soldiers in action to general pike piker the americans landed in small detachments Reinforce rients arrived the english and indians who opposed their landing inere driven back to their fortifications general pike lead ng his ills men was adv aaring on the of the enemy ilie evacuation of the works had begun there w as an on the magazine of tl e enemy had been blown up probably by design one of odthe the missiles that hurtled down on f C at it band sought out its heroic leader leder with fatal erect he fell crying push on my brave fellows and aaeng your general the dying general was carried to a boat boit at the JaL lakeside eside and taken aboard the flagship madison when those who bore cleir fallen leader reached the boat the of troops fell upon his ears WI blat at does it mean mein he ailed ed feebly victory was the reply the union jack is corn coni ng down general abid ud the stars and stripes are going up the aln daving I 1 teros eros face ted up he ile lingered a few hours hour longer but before tl ti e end had come the british fla flag was wab f t to him he ile made a s agn to place it un leh eh s I 1 ead and tl us he died ii 11 e ni mas as born in I 1 lain ain ei eiton ton N J january 5 1779 and at the age 01 04 enl sted as a t cadet in tl e regiment of his fatt fatter er albo au ri amed zebulon 11 lie e mho lad iid served in the revolution an I 1 who borit aued in he erv very CL ft until 1810 cher I 1 1 e was honorably disc haig d as ab a I 1 eu tenant colonel after five years ser e as t c dc de f ie e rece i ed hi hl first commission nylan wl en only yeats old being promoted to tl lank of ens r arle adi 1 lieutenant of the b infanti M rh 3 idi ff jacamo by 4 yel arom that time promotion followed promotion until he v w as a brigadier at the age jage pf thirty four on not noi ember 1 1799 he be v as advanced to the first and on april of the following year was transferred to the first infantry pike became famous as the I 1 ead of two explore ing expeditions ills first voyage and tha the one about which there is tl e least known was to the headwaters of tie tl e mississippi his purpose being not only to find tl ti e sources of that river but to impress upon the indians and british fur traders that they were under the sovereignty son of the united states with 0 O soldiers of the regular army he sailed in a keel boat 70 feet long from st louis on august 0 9 1805 the winter was spent in what is now minnesota a permanent camp being established deer and bear were common game though buffalo and elk were often seen in his search for the headwaters of the thi great river TIN er pike often penetrated deep into inte the lake dotted region exploring the I 1 bech drain age sv si stem w v 1 itch ich he mistook for the true source and not reaching lake itasca at st anthony falls he held a council with the sioux and secured from tl em a grant of acres in that neighborhood finding the british flag hying flying over the trading posts he promptly hoisted in its place the stars and stripes in the spring the party floated down stream and arrived in st louis april 30 1806 resting in st louis for over oner two months lieu tenant I 1 like ibe was again placed at the head of an exp oring party and dispatched from the landing at belle fontaine Font alne tuly 15 1806 to make his way across the prairies to the rocky mountains on november 15 from the banks of the arkin sas in western kansas the mexican mount alna alual were sighted at a point near the present site of pueblo pike left his main detachment and with doctor robinson and privates miller and brown struck north for the blue mountains to reach the summit of the grand I 1 leak eak the nearest the party came to the peak was on november 27 when they reached the top of a ridge about fifteen miles from the summit of the great white mountain returning to the camp on the arkansas the party pirty continued its journey into the heart of the mountains they penetrated into the south gouth park and some writers believe touched pacific waters in reaching the headwaters of the gunnison back again at canon city pike rike took a squad of his men and across the mountains in search of the bed tied river hardship after hardship was encountered until after traversing the valley at the base of the na et mountains and crossing the sangre de cristo range they found themselves in the sin juan valley arriving at a river which pike mis took for the fed red river but which was in reality the flo ilo crande alcy tl cy built a stockade near the pres present nt to town wn of alamosa alamona on a branch of tl tt e conejos here pike and his companions cap aured cy ny the span lids taken to santa fe and thence to chihuahua where his papers were seized lie ile was treated courteously and escorted back to ane united states arriving at ches in advance of his men about july 1 baz a |