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Identifier: americafromdisco00boyd (find matches)
Title: America, from discovery in 1942 to the present time
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James P(enny) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mansfield, Ohio, Estill & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rn, held theNiagara frontier. The Army of the North, under GeneralWade Hampton, held the line of Lake Champlain. On Jan. 22General Proctor, with 1500 British and Indians, attacked anddefeated the Americans at Frenchtown, on the River Raisin, andthe sick and wounded were massacred by the Indians. GeneralHanison was twice besieged in Fort Meigs, but both timessucceeded in repulsing the enemy, led by Proctor and Tecumseh,The latter then marched against Fort Stevenson, on the LowerSandusky, but were again repulsed. During the summer the Americans built and launched a fleetof nine vessels, carrying 63 guns, on Lake Erie, under commandof Commodore Perry. He met the British fleet, under Com=modore Barclay, at the west end of the lake, Sept. 10, 1812,and after a terrific battle compelled Barclay to surrender. Perrysdispatch to Harrison was, We have met the enemy and theyare ours. Perrys fleet carried Harrisons army across to Canada. TheBritish deserted Fort Maiden. Harrison pursued and forced
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460 tRESibENtS AND At)MtNlStRAttONS. the bal^le of the Thames, Oct. 5, where he gained a signal victory.Tecumseh was Icilled, and the forces of Proctor were nearlyannihilated. This restored Michigan and terminated the war inthe Northwest. On April 27 Dearborn crossed into Canada and capturedToronto, losing the brave General Zebulon N. Pike in an explo-sion of captured ammunition. On May 27 Dearborn drove theenemy from Ft. George, on the Niagara river, and again repulsedthem at Stony Creek, June 6, but with the loss, as prisoners, ofGenerals Chandler and Winder. On May 29 Prevost, with lOOO British soldiers, attacked Gen-eral Brown at Sacketts Harbor, but was repulsed. In AugustGeneral Wilkinson succeeded Dearborn, and began a movementon Montreal with 7000 troops. He fought an indecisive battlenear Ogdensburg, Nov. 11, but finding that Hampton refused toco-operate with him, he -went into winter-quarters at FrenchMills. This movement of Wilkinson threw open the Niagarafrontier, which wa

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