History of the United States of America During the Second Administration of James Madison, 第 7 巻C. Scribner's sons, 1890 |
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American April Archives Armstrong Armstrong's Notices army arrived attack battle blockade brig British campaign Canada Captain captured carronades Castlereagh Cathcart Chesapeake Colonel command Congress Craney Island Creek crew Czar Dearborn defence Detroit enemy England Federalists fire fleet force Fort George Fort Meigs Fort Strother four frigate Gallatin George guns Hampton Harrison hundred and fifty Jackson James January July June Kentucky killed Kingston Lake Lawrence letter loss Madison Major-General Malden March Maumee mediation Meigs ment miles Military Affairs militia Monroe months Montreal Morgan Lewis Napoleon naval navy Niagara Niles October officers Papers Pinckney port President Prevost privateers Proctor regiment reported river river Raisin Roumanzoff Russian Sackett's Harbor sail Sandusky River schooner Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent Serurier Shannon ship sloop-of-war squadron tary Affairs Tecumthe thousand three hundred tion town troops United vessels vote warriors Wilkinson Wilkinson's Memoirs Winchester wounded wrote York
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123 ページ - The Niagara being very little injured, I determined to pass through the enemy's line, bore up and passed ahead of their two ships and a brig, giving a raking fire to them from the starboard guns, and to a large schooner and sloop, from the larboard side, at half pistol-shot distance. The smaller vessels at this time having got within grape and canister distance, under the direction of Captain Elliott, and keeping up a welldirected fire, the two ships, a brig, and a schooner surrendered, a schooner...
207 ページ - I have the pleasure to inform you," wrote Jackson to the Secretary of War, just before leaving home, " that I am now at the head of 2,070 volunteers, the choicest of our citizens, who go at the call of their country to execute the will of the government, who have no constitutional scruples ; and if the government orders, will rejoice at the opportunity of placing the American eagle on the ramparts of MOBILE, PENSACOLA, AND FORT ST. AUGUSTINE, effectually banishing from the southern coasts all British...
66 ページ - Massachusetts, that in a war like the present, waged without justifiable cause, and prosecuted in a manner which indicates that conquest and ambition are its real motives, it is not becoming a moral and religious people to express any approbation of military or naval exploits which are not immediately connected -with the defence of our sea-coast and soil.".
122 ページ - I made sail, and directed the other vessels to follow, for the purpose of closing with the enemy.
111 ページ - Should the British troops approach you in force with cannon, and you can discover them in time to effect a retreat, you will do so immediately, destroying all the public stores." " You must be aware that the attempt to retreat in the face of an Indian force would be vain. Against such an enemy your garrison would be safe, however great the number.
5 ページ - Never before, in the history of the world, did an English frigate strike to an American...
368 ページ - The tendency of our commercial and navigation laws in their present state to favor the enemy and thereby prolong the war is more and more developed by experience. Supplies of the most essential...
321 ページ - I don't like Americans ; I never did, and never shall like them ; I have seldom met with an American gentleman, in the large and complete sense of the term. I have no wish to eat with them, drink with them, deal with, or consort with them in any way...
327 ページ - ... away as she fought. Shaler drew nearer, and came to the conclusion that the ship was too heavy for him ; but while his first officer went forward with the glass to take another look, a sudden squall struck the schooner without reaching the ship, and in a moment, before the light sails could be taken in, " and almost before I could turn round, I was under the guns, not of a transport, but of a large frigate, and not more than a quarter of a mile from her.
16 ページ - Any one who would have 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 would have been swept from the seas, the contemptible navy of the United States annihilated, and their maritime arsenals rendered a heap of ruins. Yet down to this moment not a single American frigate has struck her flag.