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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... batteries are concerned , be founded upon the principle of not a presumed inequality of powers , but - man for man , or unit for unit . The historian may describe , in the most im- passioned language , the meeting of two armies ...
... batteries are concerned , be founded upon the principle of not a presumed inequality of powers , but - man for man , or unit for unit . The historian may describe , in the most im- passioned language , the meeting of two armies ...
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... battery , and a ferry , about 800 yards across , to Bertie in Upper Canada . The Niagara procceds , at a quick rate , past several small , and one large island , called Grand isle , ten miles long ; about two miles below which , on the ...
... battery , and a ferry , about 800 yards across , to Bertie in Upper Canada . The Niagara procceds , at a quick rate , past several small , and one large island , called Grand isle , ten miles long ; about two miles below which , on the ...
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... to the westward of the town , and are pro- tected by a small battery and two block - houses ; which also serve , aided by the block - house at Gibraltar - point , to defend the entrance of the GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA . 53.
... to the westward of the town , and are pro- tected by a small battery and two block - houses ; which also serve , aided by the block - house at Gibraltar - point , to defend the entrance of the GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA . 53.
Page 54
... battery of 9 - pounders on Mississaga - point , and another , of the same metal chiefly , on Point Frederick . The town , which is the largest and most populous in the upper province , contains about 370 houses ; including several ...
... battery of 9 - pounders on Mississaga - point , and another , of the same metal chiefly , on Point Frederick . The town , which is the largest and most populous in the upper province , contains about 370 houses ; including several ...
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... batteries , which had been constructéd for one 18 - pounder , two 12 - pounders , and two 54 inch howitzers , opened upon the enemy , and continued to throw their shells into the fort until midnight . One shell killed three or four ...
... batteries , which had been constructéd for one 18 - pounder , two 12 - pounders , and two 54 inch howitzers , opened upon the enemy , and continued to throw their shells into the fort until midnight . One shell killed three or four ...
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41st regiment 49th regiment 6-pounder advance Ameri American army American editor American troops Amherstburg amounted arms arrived attack batteaux batteries battle boats brigade brigadier-general Britain British British force Brock camp Canadian Canadian fencibles captain capture colonel command commenced corps Creek Dearborn declaration despatch detachment Detroit Ditto dragoons enemy enemy's ensign field-pieces fire fleet Fort-Erie Fort-George garrison Glengarry gun-boats guns Hist honor immediately Indians infantry killed and wounded Kingston Lake landed letter lieutenant lieutenant-colonel loss majesty's major major-general ment miles militia morning naval Niagara o'clock officers Ogdensburg ordnance party prisoners privates Queenstown rank and file received reinforcement retreat river royal artillery Royal Newfoundland regiment Sackett's Harbor says schooners secretary at war sent serjeants Sheaffe ship shore sir George Prevost sir James Yeo Sketches stationed surrender Tecumseh Thomson tion town United Upper Canada vessels whole Wilkinson's Mem woods