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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... miles . Orders were at the same time issued , to disembody and disarm the militia . The officer who had this duty to perform , having ascertained that a large body of traitors and Americans had been plundering the houses of the ...
... miles . Orders were at the same time issued , to disembody and disarm the militia . The officer who had this duty to perform , having ascertained that a large body of traitors and Americans had been plundering the houses of the ...
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... mile Creek , and subsequently to the Twelve - mile Creek . These movements had driven the American general and his men to Fort - George ; and then commenced a scene of devastation and horror , of which no adequate idea can be formed ...
... mile Creek , and subsequently to the Twelve - mile Creek . These movements had driven the American general and his men to Fort - George ; and then commenced a scene of devastation and horror , of which no adequate idea can be formed ...
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... the river on that night , and landed at the Five - mile Meadows , about * Distant 530 miles . + 2d Battalion which had recently arrived from Europe . three miles above Fort - Niagara . At about four GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA . 13.
... the river on that night , and landed at the Five - mile Meadows , about * Distant 530 miles . + 2d Battalion which had recently arrived from Europe . three miles above Fort - Niagara . At about four GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA . 13.
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... miles from Buffaloe . On the morning of the 29th we find him at Buffaloe , reviewing his troops ; which then amounted to 2011 men , but were afterwards , it appears , considerably reduced by desertion . * On the 28th lieutenant ...
... miles from Buffaloe . On the morning of the 29th we find him at Buffaloe , reviewing his troops ; which then amounted to 2011 men , but were afterwards , it appears , considerably reduced by desertion . * On the 28th lieutenant ...
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... mile Creek , about three miles from Buffaloe . The nine missing of our troops were some careless fellows who had strayed to the margin of the village , and were captured on the 1st of January , by an American scouting party , headed by ...
... mile Creek , about three miles from Buffaloe . The nine missing of our troops were some careless fellows who had strayed to the margin of the village , and were captured on the 1st of January , by an American scouting party , headed by ...
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