Leonard Covington

Born in Aquasco, Prince George's County, in what was then the British Province of Maryland, Leonard Covington joined the United States Army as a cornet in March 1792. He was promoted to captain in 1794 and served in the Northwest Indian War (1785–1795) under Anthony Wayne, where he distinguished himself at Fort Recovery and the Battle of Fallen Timbers. He resigned from the military at the conclusion of the Northwest Indian War.

In 1809, Leonard Covington returned to the Army as colonel of light dragoons, having served many years in the Maryland House of Delegates and in 1805–1807 as a Representative (Democratic-Republican Party) in the Ninth Congress.[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000817 Leonard Covington's Congressional biography], retrieved 10 December 2015. He was in command at Fort Adams on the lower Mississippi River and participated in the December 1810 takeover by the United States of the Republic of West Florida, in today's Florida Parishes, Louisiana.[http://lahistory.org/site20.php Leonard Covington] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019202524/http://lahistory.org/site20.php |date=October 19, 2017 }} in the Louisiana Historical Association's Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, accessed 14 April 2017.[https://issuu.com/in_magazine/docs/covbicentennial2013 Inside Northside magazine special issue, Covington 1813–2013], on Covington, Louisiana, pages 8–10; accessed 25 February 2017. He served in the War of 1812, being promoted to brigadier general in August 1813. Covington was mortally wounded in the Battle of Crysler's Farm and died three days later at French Mills, Franklin County, New York.

At the time of his death, Brig. Gen. Covington and his family were residents of Washington, the capital of the Mississippi Territory, in a home named Propinquity. It was built in 1810 near the military installation Fort Washington (originally Fort Dearborn),[http://www.northamericanforts.com/East/ms.html#dearborn Fort Dearborn] at NorthAmericanForts.com, retrieved 26 Feb 2017. where Covington commanded the Regiment of Light Dragoons.Kempe, Helen Kerr. The Pelican Guide to Old Homes of Mississippi: Vol. 1, Natchez and the South. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 1989, p. 75. Mrs. Leonard Covington was the former Rebecca Mackall, his first cousin and a relative of the family of General James Wilkinson. The Covingtons had at least four children.

• Covington, Georgia{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n93 94]}}
• Covington, Kentucky
• Covington, Louisiana{{cite book|last=Leeper|first=Clare D'Artois|title=Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHeeUa0xNxcC&pg=PA75|date=2012|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=978-0-8071-4740-5|page=75}}
• Port Covington, Maryland
• Covington, New York
• Covington, Ohio
• Covington, Pennsylvania
• Covington, Tennessee
• Covington County, Alabama
• Covington County, Mississippi
• Fort Covington, New York
• Covington, Virginia
• Covington Theological Seminary in Rossville, Georgia.

• Leonard Leopold Mackall, Covington's great-great-grandson

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20171019202524/http://lahistory.org/site20.php COVINGTON, Leonard] in the Dictionary of Louisiana Biography (Scroll down.)
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• {{cite web|title=Brigadier-General Leonard Covington, U.S. Army (1768-1813)|url=http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/Warof1812/2010/Issue14/c_Covington.html|publisher=The War of 1812 magazine, Oct. 2010}}
• {{cite book|last1=Wailes|first1=Benjamin L. C.|title=Memoir of Leonard Covington|date=1861|location=Maryland State Archives Special Collections|url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/001800/001877/pdf/memoir.pdf}}
• [http://therivercitynews.blogspot.com/2011/12/sunday-edition-11-dec-11.html "Presenting General Leonard Wailes Covington"] photos of statue in Covington, Kentucky, on a news blog, December 2011.

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