The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and (14763989484)

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Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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al year of 1814 launched almost simultaneously againstAmerica. One landed in Chesapeake Bay. Some of its troopsby an unexpected raid burned Washington, but they wereafterward repulsed, and the expedition withdrew with littlepractical accomplishment. A second and stronger force wasmeanwhile despatched to invade the northern States fromCanada by way of Lake Champlain. Finding themselvesbravely opposed along the shores of Lake Champlain by themilitia of New York and Vermont, the English built a power-ful fleet upon the lake to help them to victory. The Ameri-cans hastily prepared a much feebler squadron under Commo-dore Macdonough. This was attacked by the Britons; butafter hours of fiercest fighting. )Macdonoughs ships either de-stroyed or captured every vessel of the enemy. The English,army then abandoned its invasion in despair and marchedback to Canada. Thus again had American seamanship andvalor defeated the Britons on their chosen element. ^^ •f. .H^-5t.-K^.^i^,^,Ht.,?K; IX-:,: I
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The United States—Era of Good Feeling 1^13 attachment to a single locality, which distinguished the more stable East.They were less Ohioans or Kentuckians than they were Americans. Their firstjloyalty was to the Union. The war of 1812 was largely the work of this high-spirited and patrioticjWest. It has been called Henry Clays war, and Clay was a Kentuckian.iCautious New England had protested against strife, the Virginian PresidentMadison had to be forced to it; only the West plunged into the maelstrom withhot-headed ardor and ignorance of what war meant. General Jackson was aTennessee citizen, bom in Carolina but emigrating westward; and the finaltriumph at New Orleans was achieved by the frontier pioneers. After 1812 the growth of the country was even more rapid. PresidentMadison, at the close of his second term of office (1813-1817), was succeededby his Secretary of State, James Monroe (1817-1825), almost without opposi-tion. Monroe was also a Virginian, and envious politicians b