A history of the United States . Erie, 1813; showed extraor-dinary energy and skill in building a fleet and in collecting and drilling biscrews; got together nine rude vessels and captured all six British vessels, in 234 ADMINISTRATIONS OF MADISON, 1809-1817. [§306 structed at Presque Isle (now Erie), and on kSeptember 10 metand defeated the British flotilla under Captain Barclay. The British had more guns,but the . Americans,after Perry had beenobliged to abandon hisflagship, gained a com-plete victory throughtheir courage and , who was co-operating with Harri-son, wrote the latter
A history of the United States . Erie, 1813; showed extraor-dinary energy and skill in building a fleet and in collecting and drilling biscrews; got together nine rude vessels and captured all six British vessels, in 234 ADMINISTRATIONS OF MADISON, 1809-1817. [§306 structed at Presque Isle (now Erie), and on kSeptember 10 metand defeated the British flotilla under Captain Barclay. The British had more guns,but the . Americans,after Perry had beenobliged to abandon hisflagship, gained a com-plete victory throughtheir courage and , who was co-operating with Harri-son, wrote the latteron the back of an oldletter, We have metthe enemy and theyare ours. Harrisonsarmy, helped by theAmerican ships, thenpassed to Detroit andafterward landed inCanada, where, at thebattle of the ThamesRiver, the British, under Colonel Proctor and their Indianallies, were completely routed (October 5). Tecumseh fellin this fight, and a portion of Upper Canada passed underAmerican control, Michigan having been, of course, regained.^. Captain Oliver H. Perry. EEVERSES AND SUCCESSES. 306. American Failures. — A great invasion of Canada and theseizure of Montreal had been planned for 1813, but it was partly the battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813; cooperated in Battle of theThames, and served in defense of Baltimore. 1 Several months previously the Americans had suffered a severe loss atthe river Raisin, seven hundred troops under General Winchester of Tennesseehaving been overpowered and forced to surrender by Proctor and his Indians,and a part of them afterward basely burned and scalped by the savages. Inconsequence the name of Proctor was held in great abhorreuce. § 308] REVERSES AND SUCCESSES. 235 abandoned, General Dearborn seizingonly a few places, includingYork (now Toronto), which was unnecessarily burned. Brown,Scott, and others showed that American soldiers could be brave,but the campaign was on the whole a failure. General Wilkin-son then succeeded Dearborn, but, like
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