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Wikimedia Commons — File:AR Miller James.jpg (Public domain; Arkansas territorial governor portrait)
James Miller
April 25, 1776 – July 7, 1851
Born Peterborough, New Hampshire
Died Temple, New Hampshire
Colonel / Brevet Brigadier General, U.S. Army; 21st Infantry — Battle of Lundy’s Lane (Niagara), July 25, 1814; earlier Maguagon and Detroit campaign
James Miller’s War of 1812 file turns on Lundy’s Lane, not the later Arkansas governorship. On July 25, 1814, as colonel of the 21st U.S. Infantry under Jacob Brown on the Niagara front, he was ordered to seize the British guns on the ridge. His answer — “I’ll try, sir” — went into the after-action story; his regiment closed on the battery in the dark and held it through murderous counterattacks until the fight broke. Congress voted him a gold medal; New York a sword.
Detroit captivity, Maguagon, and territorial office are other chapters. This register keeps Lundy’s Lane: 21st Infantry, July 25, 1814, result on the hill. Miller died in Temple, New Hampshire, in 1851. The public-domain territorial portrait on Wikimedia Commons is used here. He is not listed as missing.
- Publication
- NN-HERO-1812-012
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