Acknowledgements
An
exercise in transatlantic co-operation, this website has materialised
as a result of collaboration between the Rostrevor based historian
Dr John McCavitt in association with Newry and Mourne District Council
working in conjunction with Christopher T. George, from Baltimore,
author of Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay
and co-editor of the Journal of the War of 1812. Acknowledgement
is also due to the generous co-operation of Dr Richard Baker, Chief
Historian to the US Senate who facilitated among other things the
provision of contemporary images by Heather Moore, Photographic
Historian to the US Senate. Bill Allman, Curator of the White
House, Bill Allen, Architectural Historian to the Capitol, Edward Furgol,
Curator of the National Museum of the United States Navy,
Washington Navy Yard, Jim Gardner, Associate Director of
Curatorial Affairs, Smithsonian Institute (National Museum of
American History) and Scott Sheads, Historian/Historic Weapons
Officer at Fort McHenry National Monument, Baltimore, all
generously afforded private tours of their institutions to John
McCavitt during a research trip to Washington and Baltimore
during the summer of 2009.
Christopher T.George, Robert Reyes, Ross Kimmel (State Park
Historian, Maryland Park Service), Larry Leone and Carolyn Mroz
facilitated a tour of relevant sites in Bladensburg, Baltimore
and North Point.
Thanks are also due to Karen Daly, Executive Director of
Dumbarton House, Georgetown, as well as Scott Scholz, Museum
Curator, Dumbarton House. Dr Hans Pawlisch, Chief
Historian to the Pentagon and Norman Houston, Director of the
Northern Ireland Bureau in Washington, were generous beyond
words in affording professional and personal courtesies.
Assistance
in preparing the website was also afforded by Henry Bisharat, US Consulate, Belfast; Don and Dianne Graves, Ottawa,
Canada; Professor Kevin Kenny
and Ian Delahanty of Boston College; Professor Kevin Whelan, Notre
Dame; Dr Hiram Morgan, University College Cork; Dr Guy Beiner, Ben
Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Professor Keith Jeffery,
Queen's University Belfast; Denny Lynch, Baltimore; John Sower,
Founder and Coordinator of Friends of
the Battle of Bladensburg;
The
Fusilier Museum, Bury; Lieut. Col. Tim Cherry, Army Headquarters,
Lisburn, Northern Ireland; Rev. Sam Jones, Kilbroney Parish Church,
Rostrevor; The Newry Reporter; Louis McNally; Robert Linden
and Gerald Fay. For permission to use the family portrait of General
Ross we are grateful to Mr Stephen Campbell, a direct descendant,
from Rostrevor. Permission to reproduce this image must be sought
from Mr Campbell. For the full image of this portrait see the Gallery
in the
Media section. Finally, a special
word of thanks to Mark McCavitt, of GlennRoss Consultancy, the webmaster
of the site.
