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British aliens in the United States during the War of 1812

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Author: Scott, Kenneth.

Date of Publication: 1979.

Call Number: 929.3 S527b

Responsibility: compiled by Kenneth Scott.

ISBN: 0806308656

Author: Scott, Kenneth.

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1979.

Physical Description: vii, 420 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: British Americans - Genealogy.; British - United States - Genealogy.; Registers of births, etc. - United States.; United States - History - War of 1812 - Registers.; Great Britain - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 S527b

Men of marque; a history of private armed vessels out of Baltimore during the War of 1812

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Author: Cranwell, John Philips,

Date of Publication: 1940

Call Number: 973.52 C891

Responsibility: [by] John Philips Cranwell [and] William Bowers Crane.

Author: Cranwell, John Philips,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Date of Publication: 1940

Physical Description: xiv, 15-427 p. plates, ports., fold. map, facsims. 25 cm.

Notes: "First edition."; LCHS copy "number 145 of a special limited and numbered edition which has been autographed by the authors."; Bibliography: p. 415-418.

Summary: A letter of marque and reprisal was a government license that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a nation at war with the issuer. The author states that the activities of the Baltimore privateers "were so many and so varied that, taken as a whole, they represent a cross section of all privateering at the time."

Subjects: Privateering.; Shipping - Maryland - Baltimore.; United States - History - War of 1812 - Naval operations.; Baltimore (Md.) - History - War of 1812.

Additional Author: Crane, William Bowers,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.52 C891

The constitution and register of membership of the general Society of the War of 1812, June 1, 1908. Organized September 14, 1814. Re-organized January 9, 1854. Instituted in joint convention at Philadelphia, Pa., April 14, 1894

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Corporate Author: Society of the War of 1812.

Date of Publication: 1908.

Call Number: 369.14 S678 1908

Corporate Author: Society of the War of 1812.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Date of Publication: 1908.

Physical Description: iii p., 2 l., 9-272 p. front., plates. 25 cm.

Notes: Necrology of the general Society, 1899-1908: p. 235-272.

Subjects: Society of the War of 1812 - Registers.; United States - History - War of 1812 - Societies, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 369.14 S678 1908

Known military dead during the American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

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Author: Peterson, Clarence Stewart,

Date of Publication: 1967 [c1959]

Call Number: 973.36 P485

Responsibility: by Clarence Stewart Peterson.

Author: Peterson, Clarence Stewart,

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1967 [c1959]

Physical Description: 186 p. 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 1-6).

Subjects: United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Registers of dead.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.36 P485

Military activities in Lancaster during the War of 1812

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Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Date of Publication: 1931

MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN LAN CASTER DURING THE WAR OF 1812 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N January 8th, 1815, General Andrew Jackson won a bril- liant victory over the English troops at the celebrated battle of New Orleans,—two weeks after the treaty of peace between England and the United States

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Responsibility: by William Frederic Worner.

Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1931

Physical Description: [205]-227 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 35, no. 9

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History - War of 1812.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - War of 1812.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 35, number 9 (1931), p. 205-227Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.35

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Pennsylvania & the War of 1812

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Author: Sapio, Victor A.,

Date of Publication: [1970]

Call Number: 973.521 S241

Responsibility: [by] Victor A. Sapio.

ISBN: 0813111935; 9780813111933

Author: Sapio, Victor A.,

Place of Publication: [Lexington]

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Date of Publication: [1970]

Physical Description: x, 206 p. 23 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Expansion as a cause for war -- Economic depression as a cause for war -- The nation's honor and the party's welfare -- Pennsylvania and the economic coercion -- Party solidarity as a motive for war -- Pennsylvania at war.