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Jacob Jennings Brown
May 9, 1775 – February 24, 1828
Born Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Died Washington, D.C.
Major General, U.S. Army; Niagara Frontier, 1814 — Fort Erie, Chippewa, Lundy's Lane; later Commanding General of the U.S. Army
Jacob Jennings Brown was a Pennsylvania-born New York militia officer who rose to major general on the Niagara Frontier in 1814. Under his command American regulars fought at Chippewa and Lundy's Lane and held Fort Erie through a bitter siege — battles that Army histories still treat as the professional hinge of the northern campaign after earlier militia disasters. Congress voted him a gold medal for that season's work.
After the peace he became Commanding General of the U.S. Army, a peacetime title built on wartime field command rather than politics alone. This register files the 1814 Niagara record: Chippewa, Lundy's Lane, Fort Erie. Brown died in Washington in 1828. The John Wesley Jarvis portrait (National Portrait Gallery, CC0 on Commons) is used here. He is not listed as missing.
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