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William F. Piatt (1773-1834) was named after his uncle who was a Revolutionary War veteran and was killed during St. Claire’s Defeat (Battle of Wabash) in 1791 during the Northwest Indian War. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 11th U.S. Infantry in 1799 during the Quasi-War with France and then transferred to the 3rd Infantry. In 1809, he was a captain in the 2nd Infantry and acting quartermaster general on Governor William Henry Harrison’s staff during the famous Tippecanoe Campaign of 1811 and on Harrison’s staff during the Northwest Campaign of 1812 and 1813. In 1814, he was promoted to major in the 34th Infantry and was quartermaster general on General Andrew Jackson’s staff. On December 23, 1814, Piatt was shot in the leg while leading men from the 7th Infantry in a close range engagement with the British 95th during the prelude to the
The French lost the territory to the east of the
Mississippi to the British and the land west of it to
the Spanish during the French & Indian War, and then the Americans, thanks to George
Rogers Clark’s expedition, which claimed the land east of the Mississippi during the American Revolution. The Spanish had transferred western Louisiana back to the French in 1800 and 1801 in the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso and Treaty of Aranjuez. Napoleon and the French then famously sold Louisiana to the United States in 1804 after Napoleon gave up his dreams of revitalizing France’s New World colonies after the debacle in Haiti. The Spanish and British both wished to contain the United States and limit its westward expansion. The battles at New Orleans actually
Battle of New Orleans and received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel for “Galant conduct
at the Siege of New Orleans.” Jackson famously went on to lead his ragtag army of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Louisiana militia; Choctaw warriors, U.S. regulars, and French privateers/pirates to victory over the numerically superior British on January 8, 1815. After the war the U.S Army was heavily downsized, and Piatt left the army and moved to Ohio. He served as an elector for Jackson and was rewarded with an appointment as a paymaster in 1830 and died in 1834 having never married and leaving behind no children. Philip Yost Jr. of New Orleans claimed that Jackson secured Piatt $25 to 30,000 in payment for fraudulent claims of supplied for the army which provided
Piatt wealth. The details on General Riano do not specify who he was. He appears to be Spanish businessman Jose Antonio de Riaño of New Orleans. He is documented as petitioning Andrew Jackson for release after being imprisoned and was tried as a spy. During the War of 1812, the Spanish were allied with the British and multiple Native American nations against the Americans, and they and the British
hoped to claim portions of the Louisiana Territory (the former French claimed land stretching up the length of the Mississippi River).
took place after the United States and Great Britain had agreed to peace under the Treaty of Ghent, but the news took some time to reach North America, and Jackson’s victory over the British is widely considered one of the greatest American triumphs of the war.
CONDITION: Fine overall with dark brown patina, aged patina on the silver inlays, generally crisp markings and engraving, bright gold inlays, on inlay above the vent liner absent, some mild pitting concentrated around the vent, and generally mild wear overall. The stock is also fine and has distinct carving, mild scratches and dings, a sliver absent along the forend tip on the right, and
a few cracks including one at the toe. Mechanically fine. This is a very historic example Spanish miquelet with fine embellishment and impeccable documentation linking it to Andrew Jackson’s quartermaster general at the historic Battle of New Orleans
during the War of 1812.
Estimate: 18,000 - 27,500
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