The first West Point graduate killed in action was George Ronan, who died fighting against Indians, allies of the British, in the War of 1812. On August 15, 1812, he was mortally wounded during Captain Nathan Heald’s desperate battle near Fort Chicago, Illinois against a vastly superior Indian force. A member of the Ronan family married into the family of one of my biggest donors. Ronan Park, a 3-acre (0.01 km2) unit of the Chicago Park District located at 3000 West Argyle Street on the Chicago River, is named in Ronan’s honor.
This battle was the beginning salvo of the War of 1812, the second war between Britain and its offshoot, where both nations bloodied the other’s nose pretty good — and then made peace.
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It was a bitter, action-filled, two-year+ war where the British and their Indian allies won some battles on land and lake, and lost others to the Americans.
The British got shellacked on Lake Erie by US admiral Oliver Perry, losing their entire fleet, and US general Andrew Jackson clobbered the British Army in New Orleans.
But on the other hand the British repelled the Americans out of their possession, Canada, which many hoped the US would annex, and they captured Washington DC!
In retaliation for the American burning of two major Canadian towns, including York, now Toronto (!), and their many civilian dwellings, which caused great Canadian suffering and rebuilding costs, British Rear Admiral George Cockburne ordered the British general, Robert Ross,to capture Washington DC and burn the US capital to the ground.
But General Ross; who was Irish, ignored the admiral’s order and commanded that “only” public buildings be burned — the White House, the US Capitol, the US Treasury and other structures — humanely refusing to set fire to civilian homes. (Ross died just 19 days later at a battle against the Americans in Maryland.)
….George Ronan dies defending white women and children
True to the phrase “fighting Irish,” Lieutenant Ronan was of Irish origin and his last name means “little seal.” It is derived from the Gaelic word “ronán, ” which is often used as a term of endearment for someone who is little or small. Ronan has been a popular name in Ireland for centuries, but in the late 20th century it (and other Irish names, such as Kevin, Sean, Troy, Cody, and Brian, and for girls, Jennifer, Kathleen, Erin, Tara, Riley, and Shannon) gained popularity in other parts of the world, including, interestingly, in Germany.
This is a stone relief over the Chicago River Bridge on Michigan Avenue in Chicago which portrays the heroic Ensign (Second Lieutenant) George Ronan protecting white women and children.
Sculptor Henry Hering, in his 1928 “Defense” glorifies the heroism of Ronan.
Ensign George Ronan was a commissioned officer of the United States Army.
Officers are college-educated, appointed — “commissioned” — by the President of the United States, and head the military, because the theory is you want educated and civilized men –“gentlemen” — running such a potentially dangerous and violent institution, which can at any time not only wage war but also go and overthrow the government!
German soldiers in Occupied Paris salute their officers.
Unlike sergeants, who are “enlisted” leaders and usually come from the regular folks or working class, officers are usually middle or upper class, are saluted, and are called “sir.” But it is not all prestige and glamor. In wartime a huge number of junior officers (second and first lieutenants and captains) get killed because they are actually leading or supervising the troops during an attack. My father was a Marine Corps officer in the Korean War, and half his officer class was killed or severely wounded.
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Educated at the U.S. Military ‘Academy at West Point, New York State, and commissioned as an officer in the 1st Infantry Regiment in 1811, George Ronan was assigned to duty at Fort Dearborn, a frontier post at the mouth of the Chicago River. Just over one year later Ronan was killed in combat in the Battle of Fort Dearborn. He was the first member of the West Point Corps of Cadets to perish in battle.
*** West Point has been the elite Army officer school for 200 years
Graduates include major war leaders and three presidents, counting Jefferson Davis: Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses Grant (all Civil War), John Pershing (WWI), Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Douglas Macarthur (WWII), William Westmoreland (Vietnam) and Norman Schwarzkopf (Gulf War of 1990-91).
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Military service
George Ronan attended the United States Military Academy for almost three years, from June 1808 to March 1811. At the time Ronan matriculated, the fledgling institute of military education was just six years old, and he accepted his commission in the academy’s ninth year. A trickle of cadets graduated from the then-tiny institution of higher military training to take up duty stations in sensitive security points up and down the young United States.
One of the most threatened positions was a small stockaded fort and associated fur trading post near the southern tip of Lake Michigan.
Although the Chicago River and its hinterland was officially part of the United States, the Fort Dearborn soldiers and fur traders were sharply outnumbered by adjacent bands of Native Americans. The predominant Chicago River tribe was the Potawatomi nation, a group of clans who retained their loyalty to the British even though their land had been nominally ceded to the US by the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
On the North American Great Lakes, the years immediately prior to the breakout of the War of 1812 were characterized by increasingly embittered competition between British-Canadian fur traders and American merchants, including traders aligned with the interest of the powerful John Jacob Astor of the American Fur Company. Indians who were embedded in British-aligned fur trading and kinship networks were aware of the advance of the American frontiersmen into southern Indiana and Illinois Territory. Although Ronan did not know it, his 1811-1812 assignment to Fort Dearborn was a duty posting to a spark point.
Ronan is described by survivors as a high-spirited young ensign who did not get along well with his commanding officer, fort commander Captain Nathan Heald.
Heald, possibly in retaliation, ordered Ronan to undertake a series of increasingly dangerous operations outside the fort walls in ultimately futile efforts to knit together the tiny band of French-speaking, English-speaking, and Indian-speaking farmers and traders who lived in cabins scattered up and down the Chicago River.
When war broke out, Heald received orders to evacuate his post and remove his garrison to Fort Wayne, Indiana. The news of the fort’s evacuation, scheduled for August 15, 1812, emboldened the Chicago “British band” of Potawatomi, who took a position two miles south of the doomed stockade along the shore of Lake Michigan.
On the morning of August 15, Ronan’s attempt to help lead a knot of civilian refugees — part of the overall 93-person column of evacuees — ran into an ambush.
Witnesses saw Ronan continuing to struggle even after suffering a mortal wound, and killed two hostile Indian warriors before he died.
Legacy
Survivors believed that the spot where Ensign George Ronan was struck down was at or close to what later became the intersection of 21st Street and Indiana Avenue, located in the Prairie Avenue neighborhood of Chicago’s Near South Side.
With Ronan dead, the Indians began chopping up the white civilians. An attractive young white woman might, of course, be “spared” for sexual use by the braves…..
The wagons were defended by the American militia, as well as Ensign Ronan and the fort physician, Van Voorhis. The officers and militia were killed, along with two of the women and most of the children.[26]
US Army captain Wells disengaged from the main battle and attempted to ride to the aid of those at the wagons. In doing so, he was brought down.
According to eyewitness accounts, he fought off many Native Americans before being killed, and a group of Indians immediately cut out his heart and ate it to absorb his courage.
After the battle, where 38 US soldiers and 13 civilians had been killed, mostly small white children, and years of White-Indian tensions and violence, the US federal government determined that all Indians had to be removed from the Chicago area and the vicinity of any white settlements.
One of Ronan’s equally brave descendants of Irish heritage with me (photo by Margi at Agate Beach on Lake Superior)
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…..spiritual reading for August 17
It is a perfect day for tuning into the earth. Look for your guidance there, open up your senses and reach out to the earth Herself and all that grows and thrives upon Her. Each and every leaf carries so much love and wisdom. If you go anywhere near a tree you could be inundated. A vast tract of nature isn’t required, but rather a vast amount of attention and the willingness to receive on your part.
If you are weary, there is nurture. If you are confused, there is clarity. If you are lonely, there is love. If you are lost, there is direction. Of course all these lie within you, but it is often good to seek them out in the natural world because of the vibrational quality you can absorb in the process. Bathed in love, you always
emerge brighter and better.
Today, please take even a moment or two to commune with your beloveds in nature. Refresh, renew and realize how blessed you are.
We love you very much.
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In 1812 Britain was more concerned with fighting the closer-to-home French under Napoleon, than concentrating on the Americas.
India, “the jewel in the crown,” was far more valuable than America, and easier to administer. 70,000 British civil servants ran a country of 400 million people. The British civil servants were armed with pencils and rulers.
Most of our empire was run by white managers and engineers. I wonder how different America would be today if it remained a British colony? Perhaps an article about this scenario, JdN?
I think America would be almost the same today under the Union Jack, because the exact same jews with the exact same goals (and using the exact same goy Freemasons) totally rule both countries.
Bernard Baruch with his two puppets:
My take on the jew planning now is that the jews, who hate all Whites, WANTED to exterminate the White Anglos and switch their power base to China, but China sees right through them, sees how the jews operate and what their goal is, remembers how the jewish Sassoons and the Yiddish Empire attacked them twice and enslaved their people for a whole miserable century to opium, and so they refuse to be dominated or taken over by jewry.
And so our television is now full of how dangerous China is, oppresses the poor muslim Uyghurs, and wants to “conquer” Taiwan (a Chinese island for 400 years). 😉
Next will be a campaign exposing how they eat dogs (such sweet creatures)…….. though they have done this for millennia……
I read recently an old Times of Israel article from around 2016 where jews were complaining about Chinese companies undercutting Israeli firms to get contracts in Israel for infrastructure building.
The Chinese and the Blacks have this in common regarding the jews: as we say in America, it takes one to know one. There is so much crookedness and thievery in both the Chines and the Blacks that they see right through the jews. And the jews see through the Chinese for the same reason.
The easy pickings has been the gullible white Christian.
They say gays have “gaydar,” the jews “jewdar,” and criminals “copdar.”