Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time (1901) (14598308739)

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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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dron. In August the American sloop of war Argus was captured while cruising in the English channel by the Pelican. In September the American brig Enterprise, twelve guns, Captain Burrows, captured the British brig Boxer, Captain Blythe, off the coast of Maine. Both commanders fell in the engagement, and were buried with equal honors. During the summer of 1813 the British fleet of Sir George Cockburn entered the Chesapeake repeatedly and ravaged its shores. All the shipping that could be reached by the enemy was destroyed, and the towns of Frenchtown, Georgetown, Havre de Grace and Fredericktown were plundered and burned. An attack was made on Norfolk, but was repulsed with heavy loss. Cockburn then plundered the town of Hampton, and sailed to the southward. The barbarities committed by this fleet along the Chesapeake and its tributaries were horrible. Neither age nor sex were spared by the British sailors and marines, and women were ravished, and old men and little children murdered, with the knowledge
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533 534 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. of the admiral, who made no effort to stop the outrages. During the winter of 1813-14 a communication was received from the British government, stating that although Great Britain had declined the Russian mediation, she was willing to enter into direct negotiations with die United States, either at London or Gottenburg, in Sweden. The President at once accepted the English offer, and Henry Clay and Jonathan Russell were added to the commissioners already in Europe. Gotten-ourg was at first selected as the place of meeting, which was afterwards changed to Ghent. Great Britain Ready for Peace, At this time the opposition to the war was very great in many parts of the Union. The New England States continued bitterly hostile to it, and the legislature of Massachusetts, in a remonstrance addressed to Congress, denounced the war as unreasonable, and urged the conclusion of a peace. Congress itself was more divided upon the support of the war than it had ever