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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... arrived at Fort - George , with about 1700 of his troops ; who , agreeably to Mr. Secretary Armstrong's orders , were immediately quar- tered upon the inhabitants of Newark . In the course of November , both general Harrison and colonel ...
... arrived at Fort - George , with about 1700 of his troops ; who , agreeably to Mr. Secretary Armstrong's orders , were immediately quar- tered upon the inhabitants of Newark . In the course of November , both general Harrison and colonel ...
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... arrived from England ; the former to relieve major - general De Rottenburg , in the military command and presidency of the upper province . These offi- cers had been detained below , to see the end of general Wilkinson's expedition ...
... arrived from England ; the former to relieve major - general De Rottenburg , in the military command and presidency of the upper province . These offi- cers had been detained below , to see the end of general Wilkinson's expedition ...
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... 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 GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA . 13.
... 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 GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA . 13.
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... Arrival of rear- admiral Cockburn - Preparations for attacking the United States ' frigate Constellation in James's River - Her retreat to a safer position - Wanton firing from the shore upon the British boats- Death of two men in ...
... Arrival of rear- admiral Cockburn - Preparations for attacking the United States ' frigate Constellation in James's River - Her retreat to a safer position - Wanton firing from the shore upon the British boats- Death of two men in ...
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... arrived in the Chesapeake . In his way up the bay , the admiral detached a force to attack four armed schooners , lying at the mouth of the Rappa- hannock river . The breeze failing , the capture of the whole four was effected by five ...
... arrived in the Chesapeake . In his way up the bay , the admiral detached a force to attack four armed schooners , lying at the mouth of the Rappa- hannock river . The breeze failing , the capture of the whole four was effected by five ...
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