Alexander Macomb (general)
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Alexander Macomb was an American military officer who was the Commanding General of the United States Army from 1828 until his death in 1841. Macomb was the field commander at the Battle of Plattsburg
General Macomb's official portrait, 1829
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Statue of Alexander Macomb in Detroit by Adolph Alexander Weinman
Jacob Brown (general)
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Jacob Jennings Brown was an American army officer who served in the War of 1812, where he reached the rank of general. His successes on the northern border during that war made him a national hero, an
Alexander Macomb (general)
…promoted to major general for his conduct at this battle, and received the formal thanks of Congress and a Congressional Gold Medal. When Major General Jacob Brown, the Army's commanding general, died in February 1828, Macomb was the senior brigadier general on the Army register, although, as the Army's chief of…
Portrait by John Wesley Jarvis, c. 1815