Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . he campaign of 1813 opened on the Canadian frontier with the severaldivisions in command of Generals Harrison, Dearborn, and Hampton. OnJune 8, General Winchester, with eight hundred Kentuckians, drove theBritish and Indians, under Proctor, from Frenchtown, on the River Raisin,but returning with
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . he campaign of 1813 opened on the Canadian frontier with the severaldivisions in command of Generals Harrison, Dearborn, and Hampton. OnJune 8, General Winchester, with eight hundred Kentuckians, drove theBritish and Indians, under Proctor, from Frenchtown, on the River Raisin,but returning with a force of fifteen hundred, they obliged Winchester tosurrender, which he only consented to do under Proctors promise to protectthe Americans from the Indians; which promise Proctor treacherously dis-regarded, and marched away, leaving the sick and wounded Kentuckians tobe massacred. Henceforth the Kentucky war cry was, Remember theRiver Raisin, and many were the British and Indians who had cause todread that slogan. May o, General Harrison, reinforced by General GreenClay and his Kentucky troops, repulsed the British and their dusky alliesunder Tecumseh. July 21, they returned four thousand strong, but wereagain repulsed. The Americans, by wonderful exertion and hard work, built and equipped,. COMMODORE PERRY AT BATTLE OP LAKE ERIE. at Erie, a squadron of nine ships with fifty-five guns, the command of whichwas given to Commodore Perry. September 10, Perry won his grand victoryon Lake Erie, over the English squadron of six ships and sixty-three was the turning point of the war, and Perrys name goes down to pos-terity with the immortal names that never die. On October 5, GeneralHarrison, conveyed by Perrys ships, landed his forces in Canada and com-pletely destroyed Proctors army, Tecumseh being among the slain. Soended the war in the Northwest. In the meantime, General Dearborn was fighting with varying success in 378 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY Upper C
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