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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... marines , under captains Wybourn and Carter , and five ar- tillery - men , under lieutenant Robertson , of that corps , and proceeded to proceeded to execute his orders . The boats , owing to ignorance of the way , having entered the ...
... marines , under captains Wybourn and Carter , and five ar- tillery - men , under lieutenant Robertson , of that corps , and proceeded to proceeded to execute his orders . The boats , owing to ignorance of the way , having entered the ...
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... marines and the five artillery men embarked at midnight on the 2d of May , and proceeded up the river . The Dolphin and Highflyer tenders attempted to follow in support of the boats , but shoal water compelled them to anchor at the ...
... marines and the five artillery men embarked at midnight on the 2d of May , and proceeded up the river . The Dolphin and Highflyer tenders attempted to follow in support of the boats , but shoal water compelled them to anchor at the ...
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... marines turned to the right and left , and demolished every thing in their way ? The townspeople themselves had constructed the battery ; and yet not a house in which an inhabitant remained was injured . Several of the inhabitants ...
... marines turned to the right and left , and demolished every thing in their way ? The townspeople themselves had constructed the battery ; and yet not a house in which an inhabitant remained was injured . Several of the inhabitants ...
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... marines ; but , the instant the American militia observed them fix their bayonets , they fled to the woods , and were neither seen nor heard of afterwards . All the houses , excepting those whose owners had continued peaceably in them ...
... marines ; but , the instant the American militia observed them fix their bayonets , they fled to the woods , and were neither seen nor heard of afterwards . All the houses , excepting those whose owners had continued peaceably in them ...
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... marines were to the last degree shocking and indefen- sible . They committed indiscriminate havoc upon every species of private property along the shores of the bay , and on the margin of its inlets . " * This is the very language that ...
... marines were to the last degree shocking and indefen- sible . They committed indiscriminate havoc upon every species of private property along the shores of the bay , and on the margin of its inlets . " * This is the very language that ...
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