. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... e hundred Americans who had been impressed andwho thus refused to serve, were sent to Dartmoor prison in the Eng-lish county of Devonshire, where they were kept in most wretchedimprisonment until the war closed. CHAPTER Vni. OPENING OF THE WAR OF 1812. The Scene of War. — Hulls Surrender of Detroit. — Disgrace of Hull. — The Chicago Massacre.— Young W^infield Scott. — Defeat on all Sides. The United States had reason now to be thankful for the warw
. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... e hundred Americans who had been impressed andwho thus refused to serve, were sent to Dartmoor prison in the Eng-lish county of Devonshire, where they were kept in most wretchedimprisonment until the war closed. CHAPTER Vni. OPENING OF THE WAR OF 1812. The Scene of War. — Hulls Surrender of Detroit. — Disgrace of Hull. — The Chicago Massacre.— Young W^infield Scott. — Defeat on all Sides. The United States had reason now to be thankful for the warwith the Barbary pirates, for that war had in-duced them to take measures to fit out a navy,and they had a few ships ready for ! cried the Federalists, fight with Eng-land on the sea. Expect that this new, weaknavy of ours can hold out for one momentagainst the magnificent ships of England, whichrule the oceans of two hemispheres! It is mad-ness! Wait and see, answered the Republicans. Wait and see,echoed young Decatur, who had burned the Philadelphia under thenoses of the Tripolitans in their own harbor. Wait and see, cried. OPENING OF THE WAR OF 1812. 317 hundreds of American seaman, burning to avenge the wrongs oftheir comrades, taken away from their native vessels under theirvery eyes. Let us also wait and see. The war of the Revolution had been, on the part of Great Brit-ain, a war for conquest and subjection. They had been able, duringseven years, to introduce and maintain armies in the heart of ourcountry in some of its largest cities, and they had also ravaged andlaid waste our most populous farming districts. The War of 1812Avas very different from this. The struggle in nearly all cases wason our boundary lines ; along the borders of our great lakes, betweenthe United States and Canada ; up and down the Atlantic coast;and on the borders of the Gulf of Mexico. Such a war, carried onin our lakes, and upon the sea-coasts, would be largely naval war-fare.
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