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Jerilee Wei commented on the post, Impressment of American Seamen 11 years, 11 months ago

The entire War of 1812 is very much erased from the American textbooks as merely a chapter in our history to be glossed over especially at the hands of our school systems. Perhaps it is a way of hoping the world […]

Jerilee Wei commented on the post, Yellow Fever: Napoleon's Most Formidable Opponent 11 years, 11 months ago

Timely article, since yellow fever is still a serious health threat in many parts of the world, especially South America and in Africa! It reminded me of a once well-known old time cartoon figure, who was […]

Governor commented on the post, Malaria – The Mystery Plague of Colonial America 11 years, 11 months ago

I enjoyed reading your article.
Malaria did indeed change the course of history on many occasions. For instance, when Joseph Alston was governor of South Carolina during the War of 1812, and hence commander in […]

Governor commented on the post, Yellow Fever: Napoleon's Most Formidable Opponent 11 years, 11 months ago

I enjoyed reading your article. It is shocking how much depends on immunity to disease, both in war and in peace.
There are many lessons to be learned from this example of how disease can change the course of a […]

Pam Keyes wrote a new post 11 years, 11 months ago

By Pam Keyes

In mid-1802, French general Victor-Emmanuel LeClerc took up his pen to write back to his superior and sighed in the dripping, humid heat of Port-au-Prince. His brother-in-law, Napoleon, thought it […]

Jerilee Wei wrote a new post 11 years, 11 months ago

Despite modern advances in medicine, there is a plague (one of many) that still haunts mankind around the globe and that is malaria. Malaria is a parasite spread by the female mosquito that affects your blood […]

J-Hanna commented on the post, Impressment of American Seamen 11 years, 11 months ago

This is a very important history lesson, and I am surprised more people do not know about how the Impressment of Americans lead to the War of 1812.

Jerilee Wei wrote a new post 11 years, 11 months ago

It’s important for those interested in the U.S.S. Wasp and its battles, to understand that when it comes to the naming of ships, the U.S.S. Wasp was not first ship to carry that name. In fact, it was actually […]

Jerilee Wei wrote a new post 11 years, 11 months ago

Most lovers of naval history will already know that the British were famous or rather infamous, for the impressment of British seamen during the late eighteenth century well into the early nineteenth century. […]

Pam Keyes commented on the post, An Interview with Pam Keyes about Jean Laffite 12 years, 2 months ago

What plantation is it, I might know more about it. Laffite had connections with Destrehan plantation and Magnolia Grove, in addition to some in the Donaldsonville area and on the German Coast above New Orleans.

Aya Katz commented on the post, Commemoration of a Hero: Jean Laffite and the Battle of New Orleans 12 years, 3 months ago

Why anyone like Pickles would have a motive to discredit Jean Laffite is beyond me, unless it is to make a name for himself as a historical revisionist. Unfortunately, in the past it was not the British, but […]

Pam Keyes wrote a new post 12 years, 3 months ago

Almost 200 years ago, privateer-smuggler Jean Laffite became a hero because he did something most people wouldn’t have done: in the face of extreme adversity, he had helped save New Orleans for the Americans, even […]

Pam Keyes replied 9 years, 2 months ago

I have invested too much time on this discussion today, considering I am working on a lengthy new article about the Philadelphia connection to early New Orleans. Everyone is entitled to their own viewpoint about what did or did not happen at the Battle of New Orleans, and it is true there are quite a bit of variances between historians. It would be nice if Jackson’s daybook were able to be referenced for the absolute facts on the American side, but it apparently has been lost to history for quite some time.

Aya Katz commented on the post, The Meaning of Treason: United States v. Aaron Burr 12 years, 3 months ago

Yes, it is easy to get confused about what treason actually consists of, Pam, because everyone seems to have some preconceived notions of what it ought to be, many of which are like the English common law […]

Aya Katz wrote a new post 12 years, 4 months ago

The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1941) merged into the Second World War following the attack on Pearl Harbor. After that, historians refer to the continued war in China against Japan as part of the Pacific […]

Aya Katz wrote a new post 12 years, 12 months ago

According to The Journal of Jean Laffite, the famed privateer was the father of five children. He was married when he was seventeen to Christina Levine who bore him two sons and a daughter in close succession: […]

Aya Katz wrote a new post 12 years, 12 months ago

People do not usually remember Aaron Burr as a father. They remember perhaps that he was the third vice president of the United States. They remember, if anything, that he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. They […]

Aya Katz wrote a new post 13 years ago

She was the posthumous only child of Theodosius Bartow and Anne Stillwell Bartow. Named after her father, she bequeathed her given name, which she got from a father she never met, to a daughter that she left […]

Aya Katz wrote a new post 13 years ago

She was the daughter of the famous theologian, Jonathan Edwards, and the wife of the second President of Princeton University, but Esther Edwards Burr is best known today as the mother of Aaron Burr, Jr., the t […]

Governor replied 9 years, 1 month ago

Yes, she did! She was unusually well educated and expressive. I mentioned this journal and its contents in Theodosia and the Pirates: The Battle Against Britain. We know a great deal about both Theodosia’s grandmother and about Jean’s. They were both remarkable women.

Aya Katz wrote a new post 13 years, 1 month ago

Although the “Journal of Jean Laffite” was introduced to the public by John Andrechyne Laflin, a person with a shady past and a reputation as a forger, we cannot entirely discount his claim that there was some […]