Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-05

historical instruction and political
science
This is a true bill. The use made
by Ross and Cockburn of thir veictory
brought more disgrace upon their
government than the defeat at
Bladensburg did upon our own. and
the President and cabinet had some
reason to be thankful that indigna-
ton against the common enemy
caused their own agency in bringing
about the disaster to be less care
fully scrutinized. The news of the
in London with exultation. and the
park and tower guns were fired three
days successfully, but when the de-
tails of the capture became known
it was found that there was less cause
for exultation than for shame. The
London Statesman compared the do
ings of Ross and Cockburn with the
conduct of the buccaneers and fill
busters of old. Willingly it said.
| would we throw veil of oblivion
over our transactions at Washington.
The CossackS spared Paris, but we
spared not the capital of America ="
Gen. Robert Ross. a son of Mai.
David Ross, distinguished as an Off
Ger in the seven years war. and EliZ-
abeth Adderly. his wife, half-sister of
the first Earl of Charlemont, was born
at Rostrevor. County Down, Ireland.
in 1866, and was killed at Poplar
Heights, Patapsco Neck. in the battle
of North Point. near Baltimore, Sep
TENDER ~, 1914. The battle" Of
North Point was a small fight and,
Will eve put up better front than
we did at Bladensburg, we should
not preen ourselves much over our
conduct on that occasion. The Amer
lean tradition was maintained by the
garrison of McHenry. Failing to re-
duce this fort, the British withdrew
on the day after the battle" of North
Point. The body of Gen. Ross was
taken to Halifax and with great civic
and military circumstance was buried
in st. PauTs Churchyard. The slab
over his grave is inscribed:
Here. on the Goth of September. 1914. was
Gen. Robert Ross, who. after having dis
tinguished himself officer in Egypt,
was killed at the commencement of action
which terminated in the defeat and rout OF
troops IL, Of the q
At Ross Trevor the seat of the family
in Ireland. monument more worthy of his
memory has been erected by the noblemen
and gentlemen of his county and the officers
of a grateful army, which, under his con-
duct. attacked and DISPERSED the Americans
Mt Bladensburs the 21st t25thD of August
1914, and the same day VIGOROUSLY entered
Washing ton. the Capital of the United States
In st. Pauls Cathedral a monument has
also been erected TO his memory by his
country.
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The old regiment with which Ross
served from 1899 to 1913 placed a
tablet, inscribed as follows. in Kill
brony Church. Rostrevor:
Sacred to the memory of Maj. Gen.
Robert Ross, late lieutenant colonel
and commanding officer of the Xxx
, Regiment of Foot, who fell on the
18th of September. 1914 in the at
tack on Baltimore. This monument
is erected by the officers. non-com-
mssioned officers and privates of that
corps to prepetuate his worth and
remain in testimony of their esteem
and sorrow"
His monument, erected a st. Paul's
Cathedral by act of parliament, is in
scribed:
Erected at the public expense to
the memory of Maj. Gen. Robert Ross,
who, having undertaken and exc
cuted an enterprise against the city
of Washington. capital of the United
| States of America, which was a COM
plete success. was killed shortly aft
EDWARDS while directing successful
attack upon a superior force near
| the city of Baltimore. on the 18th
| of September. 1914"
Friends OF Gen. Ross erected in 1926
a granite obelisk, 100 feet tall, on the
| estate of Rostrevor LOGGING out over
Carlingford Tough, an arm of the
| Irish sea.