An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . day ; while atthe same time the shores rang with the shouts of the joyful Ameri-cans. That night the veterans, numbering about fourteen thousand,fled with such haste to Chazy, eight miles distant, that their flightwas not discovered until the next morning. The American landforces numbered about forty-five hundred, of whom three thousandwere militia. The American loss was only nine
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . day ; while atthe same time the shores rang with the shouts of the joyful Ameri-cans. That night the veterans, numbering about fourteen thousand,fled with such haste to Chazy, eight miles distant, that their flightwas not discovered until the next morning. The American landforces numbered about forty-five hundred, of whom three thousandwere militia. The American loss was only ninety-nine. Early in the spring of this year, the British government had de-clared the whole coast of the United States under blockade, andportions of their naval force attacked with greater or less success thetowns of Eastport, Stonington, Castine, and others. Early in August,Ad[nirals Cochrane and Malcolm entered the Chesapeake with alarge fleet and army, part of which were ordered up the Potomac,part higher up the Chesapeake, while tfie main body under GeneralRoss landed at Benedict, on the Patuxent, August 19. The Ameri-can force of three thousand men, mostly mihtia, under (General 2c2 fiTO CAMPAIGN OF BLADENSBUR3. Winder, retired before him, until at Bladensburg it was reinforcedby twenty-one hundred men under General Stansbury. CommodoreBarney with his sailors also joined him, having destroyed his battle took place at Bladensburg, in which, although the militi,*fled as soon as the enemy were in sight, Barney and Colonel Miller,with the marines, nobly sustained the charge, and but for their smallnumber would have driven back the assailants whole army. Atlength this little band were attacked in front and on both flanks,by three times their own number, and both their leaders beinjrseverely wounded, they were driven off the field. Barney andMiller were both taken, but, on account of their gallant conduct,received the greatest care and praise from the British. T
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