A history of the United States for schools . ^ enabled Harrison to enter Canada, wherehe utterly defeated Proctor and Tecumseh in the battle 1 After an engraving in T/ie Atialectic Magazine for December, original painting is now in the New York City Hall. § 114- THE PERIOD 6f WEAKNESS. 299. of the Thames. Tecumseh was killed in the battle, andDetroit was presently recovered. The next summer, 1814, the Americans tried to invadeCanada by way of the Niagara River. Jacob Brownand Winfield Scottcrossed the river, andfought two bloody bat-tles at Chippewa, July5, and at LundysLane, July 25,
A history of the United States for schools . ^ enabled Harrison to enter Canada, wherehe utterly defeated Proctor and Tecumseh in the battle 1 After an engraving in T/ie Atialectic Magazine for December, original painting is now in the New York City Hall. § 114- THE PERIOD 6f WEAKNESS. 299. of the Thames. Tecumseh was killed in the battle, andDetroit was presently recovered. The next summer, 1814, the Americans tried to invadeCanada by way of the Niagara River. Jacob Brownand Winfield Scottcrossed the river, andfought two bloody bat-tles at Chippewa, July5, and at LundysLane, July 25, butwere obliged to in the season,two British assaultson Fort Erie wererepulsed. At thesame time, the Britishtried to invade NewYork, as Burgoynehad done, but theirfleet was destroyed by Commodore Macdonough in ahard-fought battle on Lake Champlain, and their armywas thus obliged to retreat into Canada. Our southwestern frontier was in Alabama, where theCreek Indians began hostilities, in August, 1813, The war inwith a frightful massacre of men, women, and *^^ ^°^children, at Fort Mimms. Then_Ajidrpw Jnrlrnnn, withhis Tennessee troops and afew United States regulars,made^aTbloody campaignofnearly seven months, endingwith the great battle of_Tallapoosa, in March, iSjj.,wliich f
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