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Lesson Plan 2: Where Did The Battle of Plattsburgh Take Place?
Objectives:
Background:
Activities:
Using reference maps and the list of places and events assist the students in locating and or identifying various sites relative to the Battle of Plattsburgh and to grade level.
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Create a Map- “What if the British had won?”
Activities:
After reading the following paragraph taken from a letter
from The Earl Bathurst to General Prevost regarding the general’s mission in
the northeastern United States. You will create a map showing the British
territories had they acquired all their objectives.
The object of your operations will be, first, to give immediate protection.
Secondly, to obtain if possible ultimate security to His Majesty’s possessions
in America. The entire destruction of Sackets Harbor and the Navel Establishment
on Lake Erie and Lake Champlain came under the first description. The
maintenance of Fort Niagara and so much of the adjacent Territory as may be
deemed necessary, and the occupation of Detroit and the Michigan Country came
under the second period. Your successes shall enable us to terminate the war by
the retention of the Fort of Niagara, and the restoration of Detroit and the
whole of the Michigan Country to the Indians. The British frontier will be
materially improved. Should there be any advance positions on that part of our
frontier which extends towards Lake Champlain. The occupation of which would
materially tend to the security of the province, you will if you deem it
expedient expel the enemy from it, and occupy it by detachments of the troops
under your command.
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