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Records 1814.

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Monthly return of Captain David Holtz Company of the 17th Infantry, commanded by Col. John Miller, reporting troop strength at Fort Meigs for July and August, 1814.

4 p. ; 36 cm.

Bowling Green State University, BGSU Libraries

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Thielman, David.

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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 17th (1812-1815)

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In June 1812, Congress authorized the expansion of the army from 7 regular infantry regiments to 25. The 17th Infantry Regiment was the second Kentucky regiment, recruited and organized at Georgetown, Kentucky by Col. Samuel Wells. Colonel John Miller was in command of the 17th and 19th Infantry Regiments at Fort Meigs, a picketed encampment built on the Maumee, supported with blockhouses and artillery batteries, when the British attacked the fort in late April 1813. Captain Holt's company of th...