A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and the United States of America: With an Appendix, and Plates, Volume 2author, 1818 - United States |
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... formed them- selves into an association ; and marched , with lieu- tenant - colonel Bostwick , of the Oxford militia , at their head , against the marauders ; whom they fortunately fell in with on the Lake Erie shore , about nine miles ...
... formed them- selves into an association ; and marched , with lieu- tenant - colonel Bostwick , of the Oxford militia , at their head , against the marauders ; whom they fortunately fell in with on the Lake Erie shore , about nine miles ...
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... formed , except by such as had the misery to be spectators . How , then , shall we hope to succeed in describing it ? * The winter of 1813 , according to general Wilkinson , set in earlier than usual . Lambert , in his account of the ...
... formed , except by such as had the misery to be spectators . How , then , shall we hope to succeed in describing it ? * The winter of 1813 , according to general Wilkinson , set in earlier than usual . Lambert , in his account of the ...
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... formed between admiral Warren and rear- admiral Cockburn , the latter was directed , with a squadron of small vessels , including two of the captured schooners , to penetrate the rivers at the head of the bay , and endeavour to cut off ...
... formed between admiral Warren and rear- admiral Cockburn , the latter was directed , with a squadron of small vessels , including two of the captured schooners , to penetrate the rivers at the head of the bay , and endeavour to cut off ...
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... forming , part of the advanced force , commenced perpetrating upon the defenceless inhabitants acts of rapine and violence , which unpitying custom has , in some degree , rendered inseparable from places that have been carried by storm ...
... forming , part of the advanced force , commenced perpetrating upon the defenceless inhabitants acts of rapine and violence , which unpitying custom has , in some degree , rendered inseparable from places that have been carried by storm ...
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... formed on the beach . Having to ascend a steep and long hill , the troops suffered extremely from the enemy's fire ; no sooner , however , had they reached the summit , than the 300 American regu- lars retired to the rear of the fort ...
... formed on the beach . Having to ascend a steep and long hill , the troops suffered extremely from the enemy's fire ; no sooner , however , had they reached the summit , than the 300 American regu- lars retired to the rear of the fort ...
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