Talk:Battle of Plattsburgh

message: First let me say that this is a superb article.  But it is seriously marred by the fact that it lists no references.  And some statements need inline citations (For example, the quotes from Roosevelt and Churchill both need a citation.)  I know there was a great book all about the battle that came out a few years ago (entitled something like "The Last Invasion"... but I may be remembering wrong)... I will look into that and add it if I can track it down.  I hope others will do the same. Blueboar 19:42, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If this is still an issue, I've given a number of Bibliograhic and external links that could be used to beef up the text and the references.  Best to you, BlueBoar.  7&6=thirteen (talk) 15:38, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  References needed 

message: The lines, "Captain Daniel Pring, the commander of the gunboats, set up a battery on Isle La Motte, Vermont. This was the first time a British force had stepped foot onto Vermont soil, and the Vermonters swarmed across the lake to Plattsburgh's defenses." seem a little simplistic, and need to be clarified and expanded.
In the first place, I'm sure that British ships and marines raided several settlements on the Vermont shores of Lake Champlain during the summer of 1813. In the second, the paragraph reads as if, having spent the previous years selling cattle, flour, salt and naval stores to the British, the Vermonters declared some sort of Holy War to expel the British from the sacred soil of one small island.
This part of the article ought to be expanded and clarified by someone better informed on the history of Vermont than I am. HLGallon (talk) 14:15, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: HLGallon is correct in his surmissal about raids. Derby, Vermont got hit December 27, 1813 by militia, neighbors from next-door Stanstead, Quebec, to whom the locals had been formerly smuggling goods! The locals were not amused after this incident and presumably stopped or at least slowed down their smuggling! Student7 (talk) 18:21, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vermont's attitude / contributions 

message: The image from the infobox has been dropped.  It might also be good to insert the Reverse of the Congressional Gold Medal given to Alexander Macomb (American general), if somebody knows how to do that and where to find it.  7&6=thirteen (talk) 15:34, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Images needed

message: Not sure why article is named "Battle of Plattsburgh" except as a chamber of commerce thing or to pov overemphasize the army's contribution. When the naval battle was concluded, prior to the opening of army hostilities, that was the end. There was, essentially, no land battle to speak of. This is why there were three ships named "Lake Champlain" and none named "Plattsburgh."  I would like to see the article name changed to the more common one. Student7 (talk) 18:33, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That what Congress called it, and to be sure it may have overemphasized the contribution of the army.  But historically, that is where it was fought (and on Lake Champlain); and we have a redirect for Battle of Lake Champlain which is noted in the article's lead.  7&6=thirteen (talk) 13:03, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Name of article

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