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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... squadron drove her to a safe position , higher up the river . The rear - admiral afterwards advanced up the bay , sounding and reconnoitring . During the passage of the boats along the shore , in the execution of this service , the ...
... squadron drove her to a safe position , higher up the river . The rear - admiral afterwards advanced up the bay , sounding and reconnoitring . During the passage of the boats along the shore , in the execution of this service , the ...
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... squadron of small vessels , including two of the captured schooners , to penetrate the rivers at the head of the bay , and endeavour to cut off the enemy's supplies ; as well as to destroy his foundries , stores , and public works ...
... squadron of small vessels , including two of the captured schooners , to penetrate the rivers at the head of the bay , and endeavour to cut off the enemy's supplies ; as well as to destroy his foundries , stores , and public works ...
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... squadron , was - to land without offering molestation to the unopposing inhabitants , either in their persons or properties ; to capture or destroy all articles of merchandize and munitions of war 31 MILITARY OCCURRENCES BETWEEN.
... squadron , was - to land without offering molestation to the unopposing inhabitants , either in their persons or properties ; to capture or destroy all articles of merchandize and munitions of war 31 MILITARY OCCURRENCES BETWEEN.
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... squadron might require : but , should resistance be offered , or menaces held out , to consider the town as a fortified post , and the male inhabitants as soldiers ; the one to be destroyed , the other , with their cattle and stock , to ...
... squadron might require : but , should resistance be offered , or menaces held out , to consider the town as a fortified post , and the male inhabitants as soldiers ; the one to be destroyed , the other , with their cattle and stock , to ...
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... squadron , paid for them to the full amount of what the bailiff alleged was the market price . Not the slightest injury was done ; or , doubtless , one of our industrious historians would have recorded the fact . Having learnt that ...
... squadron , paid for them to the full amount of what the bailiff alleged was the market price . Not the slightest injury was done ; or , doubtless , one of our industrious historians would have recorded the fact . Having learnt that ...
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18-pounders 24-pounders 6-pounder advance aide de camp American amounted arms army arrived attack bank battalion battery Bladensburg boats brigade British capture carronades Chippeway colonel column command commenced commodore corps creek destroyed detachment division dragoons Drummond enemy enemy's ensign fire flank fleet flotilla force Fort-Erie Fort-George frigates gallant garrison gun-boats guns honor Indians infantry inhabitants island killed and wounded La Colle mill lake landed letter lieutenant lieutenant-colonel light company loss Louisiana major major-general marines ment miles militia missing morning naval Niagara night o'clock O'Connor officers Orleans party piquets Plattsburg position possession prisoners rank and file rear rear-admiral rear-admiral Cockburn retired retreat Riall river road royal artillery royal marines royal Scots Sackett's Harbor says schooner seamen serjeants severely ships shore shot Sketches sloop squadron subalterns Thomson tion town troops United Upper Canada vessels volunteers Watteville's whole Wilkinson's Mem woods