Press-Republican Year in Review: 2023
PLATTSBURGH — At the end of 2020, people could not wait for the year to be over. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and all the havoc it brought was
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PLATTSBURGH — At the end of 2020, people could not wait for the year to be over. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and all the havoc it brought was
Could the new republic defeat the British Empire a second time? Observers were holding their breath.
The 1814 Commemoration Inc. presents the 25th Anniversary of Continuous Commemorations of the September 11, 1814 Battle of Plattsburgh, September 7 -11.
PLATTSBURGH — It’s Mayor’s Cup Day in Plattsburgh.
War of 1812 - War of 1812 - War: Neither the British in Canada nor the United States were prepared for war. Americans were inordinately optimistic in 1812. William Eustis, the U.S. secretary of war, stated, “We can take the Canadas without soldiers, we have only to send officers into the province and the people…will rally round our standard.” Henry Clay said that “the militia of Kentucky are alone competent to place Montreal and Upper Canada at your feet.” And Thomas Jefferson famously wrote The British government, preoccupied with the European conflict, saw American hostilities as...