Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . ssignedthe task of destroying. According to theEnglish narrator, who was also the perpe-trator of these proceedings, it was a sub-lime scene. The sun set, says this jocundbarbarian, before t
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . ssignedthe task of destroying. According to theEnglish narrator, who was also the perpe-trator of these proceedings, it was a sub-lime scene. The sun set, says this jocundbarbarian, before the different regimentswere in a condition to move in the they quitted their ground, thework of destruction had begun in the blazing of houses, ships and stores,the reports of exploding magazines, andthe crash of falling roofs, informed them,as they proceeded, of what was going for-ward. Nothing (says a British writer)can be conceived finer than the sightwhich met them as they drew near thetown : The sky was brilliantly illuminatedby the different conflagrations; and adark, red light was thrown upon the road,sufficient to permit each man to view dis-tinctly his comrades face. The scene wasstriking and sublime, as the burning ofSt. Sebastians. The first and secondbrigades advanced into the plain, halted,and in close column bivouacked for thenight. Towards morning, a violent storm. CAPTURE AKD BURXIXG OF WASHINGTON BY THE BRITISH, IN ISH. 248 OUR FIRST CENTURY.—1776-1876. of rain, accompanied with thunder andlightning, came on,—whose flashes seemedto vie in brilliancy with the flames whichburst from the roofs of burning houses,while tlic tlnmdcr drowned the noise ofcrumbling walls, and was only interruptedby the occasional roar of cannon, and oflarge depots of gun-powder, as they ex-ploded one by one. The description thus coldly penned byone of the actors in this barbarous drama,onlj falls short of the terrible truth. Inthe American metropolis, then in the
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