Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
May 13, 1816
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 80
Additional Source Text:
"By the donor one of the said company, on the 28th of December 1815 [ i.e., 1814]. That day being the second attack made by the enemy on the American lines. brought by Capn. Graves."
Notes:
Skirmishes between Brtitish and American forces took place on 28 Dec 1814, eleven days before the climactic Battle of New Orleans on 8 Jan 1815. The British employed the Congreve rocket that had been developed about a decade earlier.
"Captn. Graves" may have been Philadelphia sea captain John Graves.
