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Book Review
Sword of the Border: Major General Jacob Jennings Brown, 17751828. By John D. Morris. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2000. xviii, 348 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-87338-659-0.)
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Jacob Jennings Brown was one of the few consistently successful American generals in the War of 1812. He faced British regular troops in four battlesSackets Harbor in 1813 and Chippewa, Lundy's Lane, and Fort Erie in 1814and, if Lundy's Lane be counted an American success rather than a draw, he emerged victorious on each occasion. Yet Brown has never received his due, either from biographers or from any other historians of the early republic. John D. Morris has remedied this neglect in this attractive, well-researched, and interesting study of a man whose life and career reflected the changes that his family, his region, his nation, and his profession experienced between the age of Thomas Jefferson and the age of Andrew Jackson. |
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