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Alexander Macomb
April 3, 1782 – June 25, 1841
Born Detroit, Michigan Territory
Died Washington, D.C.
Major General, U.S. Army; War of 1812 — Plattsburgh (September 11, 1814) land defense concurrent with Macdonough’s Lake Champlain victory; later Commanding General of the U.S. Army
Alexander Macomb’s War of 1812 card turns on Plattsburgh, September 11, 1814. As brigadier (soon major) general commanding the land force on the Saranac, he held the American lines while Thomas Macdonough fought the British squadron on Lake Champlain — the paired land and lake results that forced Prevost’s withdrawal are fixed in Army and Navy after-action papers, not later monument copy alone. Congress voted him a gold medal for the defense.
Engineer years before the war and his later tenure as Commanding General of the Army are other chapters. This register keeps Plattsburgh: September 11, 1814, land line, concurrent lake victory. Macomb died in Washington in 1841. The public-domain Macomb portrait on Wikimedia Commons is used here. He is not marked missing.
- Publication
- NN-HERO-1812-014
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