LCMM to investigate 1812 battle
Posted on September 26, 2011 |
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THIS RENDERING BY artist Kevin Crisman depicts Commodore Thomas MacDonough’s crew building one of the vessels at the shipyard in Vergennes in anticipation of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a key U.S. victory in the War of 1812.
VERGENNES — Almost 200 years ago, Commodore Thomas MacDonough won a crucial naval battle in the War of 1812 that drove the British — the world’s greatest naval force at the time — from the Plattsburgh, N.Y., battle site back into Canada, allowing the United States to retain a larger piece of northern territory when a peace treaty was signed two months later.
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