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 . AMERICAN DEFENSES AT NEW <I:I, T is a fact fruitful of the most suggestive reflections,that, had the facilities of communication by steamand electricity been enjoyed in 1815, as the
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 . AMERICAN DEFENSES AT NEW <I:I, T is a fact fruitful of the most suggestive reflections,that, had the facilities of communication by steamand electricity been enjoyed in 1815, as they are atthe present time, the battle of New Orleans, andthe blood which flowed so freely on that memorableoccasion, would have been spared; for, only twoweeks previous to the sanguinary conflict, namely, on the 24thof December, 1814, the treaty of peace between the UnitedStates and Great Britain was signed at Ghent, by the ap-pointed commissioners,— a most joyous event to all, but thetidings of which did not, unfortunately, reach the contendingarmies in Louisiana, until several weeks after the battle tookplace. Nevertheless, perhaps no other battle in Americanf^-y^- annals, up to that period, had given such prestige to the valorof American arms, nor can any estimate be made of the 258 OUR FIRST CENTURY.—1776-1876. immense consequences of that victory toGeneral Jackson and Lis conntr}. , the historian, says that theheroes o
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