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 .. . he advance parties, duringwhich General Ri ss was killed. Colonel Brook then assumed thecommand, when ihe battle became general—the Americans slowlyretiring toward the city. On the following day the British attemptedto reach their destination by a circuitous route, but failing, they sud-denly retreated to their shipping. Meanwhile Fort McHenry had been furiously assailed, the enem
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 .. . he advance parties, duringwhich General Ri ss was killed. Colonel Brook then assumed thecommand, when ihe battle became general—the Americans slowlyretiring toward the city. On the following day the British attemptedto reach their destination by a circuitous route, but failing, they sud-denly retreated to their shipping. Meanwhile Fort McHenry had been furiously assailed, the enemyswhole line of fifty ships bombarding it from sunrise on the liJth,until seven the following morning. The garrison, consisting uf onethousand men under Major Armistead, gallantly did their duly, and,with the assistance of the smaller forts, poured into the opposingfleet so well-directed a fire, that on the 15th it descended the Chesa-peake, and after taking on board the land forces, joined the remain-der of the squadroti. The British lost thirty-nine killed, two hundredand fifty-one wounded ; the Americans twenty-four killed, one huadrtd and thirty-nine wounded, and about fifty taken. 512 CAMPAIGN OP BOUBABBMBNT 01* 70BT MHXNBT. EN the summer of this year, the south-westernstates again became the theatre of activeoperations. In August, a body of Britishtroops arrived at Pensacola, and marchedinto the Spanish fort at that place. Theircommander, Colonel Nicholls, issued a pro-clamation to the inhabitants of Louisiana,Kentucky, and Tennessee, inviting them tosecede from the federal government. Healso made offers of alliance and the pirates of Barataria, under their renowned chief Lafitte ; butthat officer immediately made the whole known to Governor Clai-borne of Louisiana, who, pleased with his magnanimity, promisedpardon to the whole band, on condition of their engaging in defenceof the country. This was accepted, and from that time the Bara-tarians did go
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