. The life and military services of Lieut-General Winfield Scott, including his brilliant achievements in the war of 1812, in the Mexican war, and the pending war for the Union. wonders of nature, on either sideof the Atlantic; fought too with a courage and a coi:stancy worthy of such an association, why should it notbe named from those loud, stftading watersJ>*^et it then be called. The Battle of NiAGARA?^«Let the memoryof the dead,^ and the fame of the living, roll on with thosewaters to the distant future ! eaying, a great battle was then raging (10 oclock at nifht) near thosemills. The
. The life and military services of Lieut-General Winfield Scott, including his brilliant achievements in the war of 1812, in the Mexican war, and the pending war for the Union. wonders of nature, on either sideof the Atlantic; fought too with a courage and a coi:stancy worthy of such an association, why should it notbe named from those loud, stftading watersJ>*^et it then be called. The Battle of NiAGARA?^«Let the memoryof the dead,^ and the fame of the living, roll on with thosewaters to the distant future ! eaying, a great battle was then raging (10 oclock at nifht) near thosemills. The universal publication of that letter, before any official report,caused the confusion in the name of this action. Niagara was the name given to this battle in the Albany Argus, (See 6 Niles, 414.) It commands, says the Argus, like the achieve-ments of our naval heroes, the admiration of all classes of the Americanpeople, a few excepted. » The late poem, Festus, by Mr. Bailey, has the following lines— — No ! the brave Die never. Being deathless, they but changeTheir countrys arms for more—their countrys then the dead their due—it is they who saved RIPLEY RETURNS TO TUB CAMP. 135 CHAPTER X. 1814. Retreat of the American Army.—Drummond besieges Fort Erie.—As-sault of the British on Fort Erie.—Sortie of the Americans from FortErie.—Retreat of the British army.—Close of the Campaign. We must leave, for a time, the wounded Scott to theapplause of hik countrymen, so richly deserved, and sofreely bestowed, while we briefly describe the closingdeeds of the army of Niagara. We have accompanied itthrough so many scenes of danger and of glory, that wecannot abandon it till the peace, which occurred but sixmonths subsequently, relieved it from the toil and trouble,the hazards and difficulties of war. General Brown had been taken, wounded, from the fieldof Niagara. Towards the close of the battle, Scott also,twice wounded, and now exhausted, was borne out
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