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Just for expedientcy. Thank you. Congratulations new officers. Thank you. Ill thank you for the opportunity to make a brief statement first of all, i think all our commissioners commissioner melara thank you but in my two years of learning ill be able to carry on our mission to support the commission of the department in the work we have to do. Were very fortunate to have your staff and its only apartment but were going to ask him we ask each of our commissioners to tell us what they want to serve on weve built a strong team in our Committee Structures the structures have matured where we hear...

Theyre also very different. And i suspect that the truth is somewhere in the middle here, and i couldnt tell you which one is better. And this is another one. This is an image that came out of one of the books that i did and it is showing the british piling up material, and this is in the Capitol Building. And if youll notice, the guy on the left, on the back, hes carrying a backpack that would carry two cases for a congrieve rocket. Rocket and if youll notice the man standing on top of the pile, hes literally taking the projectile material that would have been inside of that rocket and hes sp...

In the war of 1812, obviously. So its my pleasure to welcome colonel eshelman to the podium. [ applause ] good morning, everyone. Thank you. That was a kind introduction. I have never been called colonel when im been introduced. Thank you very much. I want to add to the accolades expressed about the wonderful job the partners and all the individuals have done to put this symposium together. I have thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope you have as well. We still have an afternoon to go as well. Itis not over and im looking forward to it. Before lunch, which is an important thing for all of us, i have a...

And most of them i think were built around either boston or philadelphia. In supporting the war, and particularly the naval war, did jobs ever come into any of the equations in 1812, or looking longer through American History, when did jobs become an issue of National Policy . All right. When did jobs start driving our defense policy . Yes. Not during this war. I dont see any evidence that federalists said, well, weve got to support expanding the navy because thats going to be jobs in our commercial ports where were often in a majority. Ive not seen that hint of that. And this is a rare war, i...

Thank you very much. A great honor to be here, and thank you to the u. S. Capital Historical Society and the White House Historical sorry for including me in this great honor. I thought i would take on i thought i would take on the myth that the british marched to washington to avenge the burning of york or what is today toronto in canada. As i was starting to think about this paper back in april, i was wondering, do i really need to make this argument . Do people still really think that . Now that were well into the bicentennial, i can tell you, yes, people still really think this. In fact im...