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Identifier: navalbattlesanci00ship (find matches)
Title: Naval battles, ancient and modern
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Shippen, Edward, 1826-1911
Subjects: Naval battles
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) J.C. McCurdy & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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mportant, in its results, of all fought duringthe war with Great Britain which beganin 1812. At the same time that the naval battlewas fought, the Americans, under GeneralMacomb, obtained a decided victory overthe British land forces, which had advanced, on the westside of Lake Champlain, as far as Plattsburg. Although Lake Champlain had been the scene of somany important events in the previous wars on thiscontinent, two years of the War of 1812 elapsedbefore anything of importance occurred there. Norwould it have then been the scene of any stirring event,if English military men had been capable of learninganything from previous operations there. Towards the end of 1814 large reinforcements hadarrived in Canada, from England, and an army of twelveor fifteen thousand men was collected in the vicinity ofMontreal. With this force the enemy intended an invasion of thenorthern counties of New York; undeterred by the fateof General Burgoyne, whose route, practically, theyintended to follow.
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BATTLE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN. 503 In spite of the obstinacy and stupidity of the Englishmilitary mind during these operations, many people havesupposed that this expedition was not intended to bepushed very far into a country much more capable ofresistance than in Burgoynes time, but that the officerswQre probably directed to penetrate as far as CrownPoint and Ticonderoga, perhaps with a view to attemptsat further conquests in the spring. Some thought that they hoped to reach Albany; ameasure that would have involved the loss of theirwhole force, as double the number of men could hardlyhave accomplished such a feat in Burgoynes time,through a sparsely settled country. It is altogether probable that they intended to occupya portion of the frontier, in the expectation of turningthe occupation to account in the negotiations which wereknown to be impending; as the English Commissionerssoon after advanced a claim which would have the effectof driving the Americans back from their ancient boun-

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