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NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE IN SOME COUNTRIES.;Title proper from title frame.;Mode of access: World Wide Web.;DEFENDING THE OLD DOMINION; Table of Contents; Preface; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Prologue to War; 2. Wrongs so Daring in Character; 3. The Year of the Five Governors; 4. May God Desert Those Who Now Desert Their Country; 5. Thirty Years of Neglect; 6. The Militia the Great Bulwark of Our Liberty; 7. Virginians Debate the War; 8. We Shall Be Victorious Because We Are Right; 9. A Brigade of Hearty Athletic Men and Fine Soldiers; 10. We Find This Place in a Most Defenceless Situation; 11. British Strategy and the Defense of Norfolk; 12. Legislative Initiatives.;13. To the Mercy of Any Invader14. The Result Has Been Most Glorious to Our Arms; 15. They Acquitted Themselves as Becomes Virginians; 16. Richmond Threatened; 17. We have a Savage Enemy at our Threshold; 18. There is reason to believe that he will be reinforced; 19. Taxes and Embargoes; 20. The Internal Foe; 21. Our Weakness is Alarming; 22. Determined to Ruin the Northern Neck; 23. The Donation of Alexandria and the Battle of the White House; 24. To Repel and Chastise the Invaders; 25. Richmond in Peril; 26. Those Gallant Virginians; 27. The Last Months of the War.;28. Its Conditions are Honorable to our Country29. To the Tented Field; 30. Epilogue; Appendix One; Appendix Two; Bibliography; Index.;Print version record.;Includes bibliographical references and index.;Description based on print version record. This book describes historical events in Virginia during the War of 1812, looking specifically at how Virginia's militia was organized, supplied, and financed by the Commonwealth. It discusses the militia's unpreparedness in training, its lack of adequate ordnance, and how the state financed the war.