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| Tango01 | 27 Feb 2026 3:56 p.m. PST |
… Survivors Recall the Hellish Conditions of Frontier Field Hospitals "The ostensible cause of the struggle the British policy of restricting U.S. trade with Napoleonic France was resolved before hostilities had erupted. The fighting, which raged along the frontier between the United States and Britain's Canadian colonies, ultimately changed nothing; all captured territory was returned. And finally, there was no clear winner; both sides simply agreed to terminate hostilities after two-and-a-half years.
By European standards, the battles of the War of 1812 were miniscule. For example, one of the war's opening engagements Queenston Heights involved fewer than 5,000 combatants in total. By comparison, just weeks earlier and half a world away, Napoleon's 135,000-man Grande Armιe met a similarly sized Russian force at Borodino with both sides suffering tens of thousands of casualties in a single day. Yet despite the small scope of the Anglo-American war, the wounded suffered just as greatly as those on European battlefields, indeed perhaps more, particularly when considering the backwoods locations of the clashes and the minimal preparations made for care of the wounded by the competing armies…" link Armand |
| TimePortal | 27 Feb 2026 9:20 p.m. PST |
In Alabama as part of the Creek War, it was very common for wounded men to die from their wounds. Jackson reported ver few men killed in action. However the Cemeteries at Talladega and Fort Williams near Fayetteville are very large. Fort Williams was the medical fort used for the last battles |
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