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 1author, 1818 - Ontario |
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Page xxvii
... regulars ; ' aye , and that with the bayonet ' too : or , if the Americans are described as the routed party , it is , after a desperate struggle with five times their number . ' None of these gentlemen think it worth their while to ...
... regulars ; ' aye , and that with the bayonet ' too : or , if the Americans are described as the routed party , it is , after a desperate struggle with five times their number . ' None of these gentlemen think it worth their while to ...
Page 57
... regular troops 46 ; Canadian militia 260 ; In- dians 715. " Here the regulars are correctly enumerated ; but their inconsiderable number taught Dr. Smith a preferable method of stating the British force . He lumps the whole together ...
... regular troops 46 ; Canadian militia 260 ; In- dians 715. " Here the regulars are correctly enumerated ; but their inconsiderable number taught Dr. Smith a preferable method of stating the British force . He lumps the whole together ...
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... regulars and militia , 150 Indians were sent across the bridge . A company of American riflemen , concealed in a wood that skirted the plane , im , mediately fired upon the Indians , killing one , and wounding two . After scalping the ...
... regulars and militia , 150 Indians were sent across the bridge . A company of American riflemen , concealed in a wood that skirted the plane , im , mediately fired upon the Indians , killing one , and wounding two . After scalping the ...
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... regulars and Indians . " One editor says , " The whole detachment retreated in great disorder , and could not , by any exertion of major Van Horn , be rallied ; " another says , " they fled with precipitation ; " and a third editor ...
... regulars and Indians . " One editor says , " The whole detachment retreated in great disorder , and could not , by any exertion of major Van Horn , be rallied ; " another says , " they fled with precipitation ; " and a third editor ...
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... regulars : the whole under the com- mand of captain Muir of the 41st . This force one American editor has augmented to 200 regu- lars and 500 Indians , in order that he might make it " more than one - third superior " to his own , which ...
... regulars : the whole under the com- mand of captain Muir of the 41st . This force one American editor has augmented to 200 regu- lars and 500 Indians , in order that he might make it " more than one - third superior " to his own , which ...
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