. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. g right and left intotheir shattered vessels, andin fifteen minutes more thevictory was won. * We have met the enemyand they are ours, wasPerrys famous despatch. Itroused the country like anelectric charge. Enthusiasm every-where ran high. The Battle of the Thames.—Perrys victory saved the North-west. On receiving the news ofit. General Harrison crossed intoCanada, found the enemy in retreat, and completely defeatedthem on the river Thames. Proctor, the British com-mander, fled; his men surrendered; and Tecumseh, wh
. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. g right and left intotheir shattered vessels, andin fifteen minutes more thevictory was won. * We have met the enemyand they are ours, wasPerrys famous despatch. Itroused the country like anelectric charge. Enthusiasm every-where ran high. The Battle of the Thames.—Perrys victory saved the North-west. On receiving the news ofit. General Harrison crossed intoCanada, found the enemy in retreat, and completely defeatedthem on the river Thames. Proctor, the British com-mander, fled; his men surrendered; and Tecumseh, wholed the Indian auxiliaries, was killed. Detroit was soonafter recovered, -and the war ended in the West. Canada again Invaded.—In 1814 another attempt toinvade Canada was made, by way of the Niagara this time the army had been reorganized, the troopsdiscipHned, and more able commanders chosen. GeneralWinfield Scott Avon a brilliant victory at Chippewa on July5. On July 25 another victory was won at Lundys Lane.^The invasion, however, yielded no useful Battle-Fields on the Niagara. ^ A battery, situated on a height, was the key to the British you take that battery? asked General Brown, calling Colonel 280 THE EARLY PERIOD OF THE REPUBLIC. McDonoug!! on Lake Charaplain.—Later in the season,the British attempted an -invasion of New York, followingthe often-tried line of Lake Champlain. It proved a disas-trous failure, though General Prevost had under him twelvethousand of AVellingtons veteran soldiers. The British fleeton the lake attacked the American squadron under McDon-ough (September 11), and was so badly beaten as to benearly destroyed. Prevost, learning of this defeat, fled insuch haste as to leave his sick and wounded and most ofhis stores behind. The War on the Coast.—With this important Americanvictory the war in the North ended, but meanwhile a cam-paign of plunder was being made on the Atlantic had been beaten and
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