Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time (1901) (14784973635)

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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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s defeatedand forced to surrender, with the exceptionof a few gunboats, which escaped. While thisbattle was going on,Prevost tried repeat-edly to cross the Sara-nac, but was each time;= driven back with heavyffl? loss. During the night:- the British army re-^ treated in disorder,^ abandoning their sickm and wounded and a^ large quantity of mili-tary stores, having losttwenty-five hundredmen in the engage-ment. The country hadample cause to regrelthe weakness of its5 navy during this war.The exploits of thosevessels which hadmanaged to get to seahad shown what couldbe accomplished bythis branch of thepublic service, andour deficiency in this respect enabled theenemy to blockade the ports of the Union,and to use the Chesapeake bay with asmuch freedom as if it were one of theirown harbors. In the summer of .^814 r,fleet of sixty British ships undejr Admiral jCockburn and Cochrane, having on boarda land-force of five thousand men underGeneral Ross, assembled in the Chesa-peake. CHAMPLAIN.
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