The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812Yale University Press, 1920 - 235 ページ |
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action Ameri American frigate American navy Amherstburg Andrew Jackson army attack Bainbridge battery battle Bladensburg blockade boats brig brigade British brig British fleet British frigate British ships Brock campaign Canada Canadian captured Chauncey Chesapeake coast Colonel command Commodore Constitution crew Croghan cruise Dearborn Decatur deck defense Detroit Elliott enemy enemy's England Essex fight fire flag force fought Frenchtown frigate Frolic frontier George Guerrière gunners guns Harrison Holland Thompson honor hundred Indians infantry invasion Isaac Hull Jacob Brown Jacob Jones Java killed Lake Champlain Lake Erie Lake Ontario land Lawrence Lieutenant Lundy's Lane Macdonough marines miles militia Montreal naval Niagara officers Oliver Hazard Perry Orleans Perry Perry's Plattsburg port Porter Prevost Procter regiments regulars retreat river Sackett's Harbor sail sailors Salem schooners seamen sent Shannon shot sloop-of-war soldiers squadron Stephenson surrender thousand tion troops United vessels victory Washington Wasp Wilkinson Winfield Scott wounded Yankee yards
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191 ページ - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming...
9 ページ - The conquest of Canada is in your power. I trust I shall not be deemed presumptuous when I state that I verily believe that the militia of Kentucky are alone competent to place Montreal and Upper Canada at your feet.
7 ページ - Forge with less than half the force of the enemy, destitute of everything, in a situation neither to resist nor to retire; we should not have seen New York left with a handful of men, yet an overmatch for the main army of these states while the principal part of their force was detached for the reduction of two of them; we should not have found ourselves...
117 ページ - The public will learn with sentiments which we shall not presume to anticipate that a third British frigate has struck to an American. . . . This is an occurrence that calls for serious reflection — this, and the fact stated in our paper of yesterday, that Lloyd's list contains notices of upward of five hundred British vessels captured in seven months by the Americans. Five hundred merchantmen and three frigates...
100 ページ - In less than thirty minutes from the time we got alongside of the enemy she was left without a spar standing, and the hull cut to pieces in such a manner as to make it difficult to keep her above water.
116 ページ - Never before, in the history of the world, did an English frigate strike to an American...
6 ページ - Had we formed a permanent army in the beginning, which, by the continuance of the same men in service, had been capable of discipline, we never should have had to retreat with a handful of men across the Delaware in 1776, trembling for the fate of America, which nothing but the infatuation of the enemy could have saved...
117 ページ - Any one who had predicted such a result of an American war this time last year would have been treated as a madman or a traitor. He would have been told, if his opponents had condescended to argue with him, that long ere seven months had elapsed the American flag...
156 ページ - Seventy-five men, including officers, were all that remained of my whole crew, after the action, capable of doing duty, and many of them severely wounded, some of whom have since died. The enemy still continued his fire, and my brave, though unfortunate companions, were still falling about me. I directed an opposite gun to be fired, to show them we intended no farther resistance ; but they did not desist ; four men were killed at my side, and others at different parts of the ship.
65 ページ - They commenced a furious attack, but were promptly met and routed by the rifle and bayonet. By this time I perceived my troops were embarking very slowly. I passed immediately over to accelerate their movements ; but to my utter astonishment, I found that at the very moment when complete victory was in our hands, the ardor of the unengaged troops had entirely subsided. I rode in all directions ; urged the men by every consideration to pass over, but in vain.