290 P'T. IV. “DON'T GIVE up the ship." village of Newark. The American government disowned the act; but the British retaliated, by burning CH. V. the villages of Buffalo and Black Rock. P'D. II. 1813. and Am. loss, .... 4. NAVAL AFFAIRS.-Another naval victory, the sixth in succession, now did honour to the sea-service. Br. loss Capt. Lawrence, in the Hornet, defeated on the 23d 40, Am 5. of Feb., the British sloop of war Peacock, after an action of only fifteen minutes. . . . . Lawrence was Shannon promoted to the command of the frigate Chesapeake. Chesa She was lying in the harbor of Boston, ill-fitted for peake sea. Her crew were in a state of dissatisfaction from k. 70, w. not having had their pay. The British, mortified at Br. half their naval defeats, had prepared the frigate Shannon, the num- with a picked crew of officers and seamen. Capt. ber. Broke, the commander, sent a challenge to Lawrence, which he injudiciously accepted. The frigates met. In a few minutes every officer, and about half the men of the Chesapeake, were killed or bleeding and disabled. Lawrence mortally wounded, and delirious, continually raved, "Don't give up the ship." The British boarded her, and they, not the Americans, lowered her colours. 63. June 1. Aug. 14. 5. Another naval disaster followed. The United States sloop of war Argus, commanded by Lieut. Allen, Am. loss was captured, in St. George's channel, by the British 40, Br. 8. sloop of war Pelican; Allen, mortally wounded, died in England.... The Americans were again successful in Sept. 4. an encounter between the brig Enterprize, commanded by Lieut. Burrows, and the British brig Boxer. Burrows was mortally wounded. stirred Creeks 6. CREEK WAR.-The Creek Indians had become up by in a degree civilized by the efforts of the government, Tecum- and those of benevolent individuals. Tecumseh went seh. among them, and by his feeling of the wrongs of his race, infused by his eloquence into their minds, he wrought them to a determination of war and vengeance. Massa- 7. Without declaring war, they committed such acts Mims.273 of violence, that the white families were put in fear, slaugh and fled to the forts for shelter. At noon day, Fort cre at Ft. tered. 4. Give an account of Capt. Lawrence's victory? Of his defeat and death? -5. In what other case were the Americans unsuccessful? What victory was achieved? 6. What was the state of the Creeks? How were their minds excited? JACKSON AMONG THE CREEKS. 291 Mims was suddenly surrounded by the Creek warriors. P'T. IV. in arms. teen escaped to tell the tale. P'D. II. 1813. 8. What, in such a case, could the American government do, but to defend its own population, by such means as alone have been found effectual, with this terrible foe? Gen. Jackson, probably the most efficient commander ever engaged in Indian warfare, Jackson went among them, at the head of 2,500 Tennesseeans. Gen. Floyd, the governor of Georgia, headed about 1,000 Georgia militia. They laid waste the Indian villages; they fought with them bloody battles, at Talledega, at Autosse, and at Eccannachaca. re and Floyd make havoc of the Creeks. 9. Finally, at the bend of the Tallapoosa, was fought the last fatal field of the Creeks; in which they lost 600 of their bravest warrriors. Then, to save the Topokeka, the sidue of their wasted nation, they sued for peace; and last bata treaty was accordingly made with them. But while it remains with the Indian nations an allowed custom, to make war without declaring it, treaties with them, are of no permanent value. tle field. CHAPTER VI. The Niagara Frontier.-Battles of Chippewa and Bridgewater. sioners to 1. VARIOUS proposals to treat for peace having been made since the commencement of the war, the Ameri- Commiscan government sent Messrs. Adams, Gallatin, and treat for Bayard, in the month of August, to Ghent, the place peace of meeting previously agreed on. They were there Ghent. 7. Give an account of the massacre at Fort Mims?-8. Who went against the Creeks? At what places were they defeated? 9. Where was the final battle? What then occurred? CHAPTER VI.-1. What persons were sent to treat for peace on each side? To what place? meet at 292 WELLINGTON'S VETERANS SENT OVER. F'T. IV. met by Lord Gambier, Henry Golbourn, and William P'D. II. Adams, commissioners on the part of Great Britain. CH. VI. On that of America, Henry Clay, and Jonathan Russell, were afterwards added to the delegation. May 24. A bold congress. La Colle. 2. Congress met in extra session, and with the firmness of the days of the revolution, taxed the people, regardless of the popular clamor, for the necessary expenditures of their government. They also authorized a loan. At the regular session, congress, desirous of an efficient army, gave by law, 124 dollars to each recruit. 3. CAMPAIGN OF 1814.-Gen. Wilkinson, having 1814. received orders from the secretary of war, detached Feb. 21. Gen. Brown, with 2,000 troops, to the Niagara fronAffair of tier, and then retired to Plattsburg. The British had fortified themselves at La Colle Mill, near the river Sorel. Gen. Wilkinson advanced, and made an attack. A sortie from the building ended in his repulse. The general was censured by the public; and tried by a court martial, but nominally acquitted. Holmes. Feb. 21. 4. Capt. Holmes, who was sent from Detroit, fell in Capt. unexpectedly with 300 of the enemy. With but 180 men he fought them, stood his ground, and killed 69 of their number. 14,000 of veteran 5. After the fall of Napoleon, a formidable army of Welling fourteen thousand, who had fought under the Duke ton's of Wellington, were embarked at Bordeaux for Canada; troops and, at the same time, a strong naval force, with an adequate number of troops, was directed against the maritime frontier of the United States, to maintain a strict blockade, and ravage the whole coast from Maine to Georgia. sent over. 6. In June, Gen. Brown marched his army from Gen. Sackett's Harbor to Buffalo, expecting to invade CaBrown nada. Here were added to his army, Towson's artilFt. Erie. lery, and a corps of volunteers, commanded by Gen. takes 2. What was done by congress in their extra session? In the regular session? -3. What was done by Gen. Wilkinson? What happened at La Colle?-4. What was done by Captain Holmes?-5. What threatening measures were now taken by the British? -6. What movements were made by Gen. Brown? What addition was made to his army? On P'T. IV. P'D. II. Porter, making, in the whole, about 3,500 men. the 2d and 3d of July, they crossed the Niagara, and invested Fort Erie, where the garrison, amounting to CH. VI. 100 men, surrendered without resistance. A British army, of the supposed invincibles, and commanded by Gen. Riall, occupied a position at the mouth of the Chippewa. 1814. Am. 328. 7. The two armies met at the battle of Chippewa, July 5. in fair and open fight. The republican soldiers, Chippewa, Br. headed by the able officers that had now come for- loss 518, ward, defeated, with inferior numbers, the veterans who had fought with Wellington. Soon after the battle, Gen. Riall fell back to Fort George, where in a few days he was joined by Gen. Drummond, when his army amounted to 5,000 men. 8. Gen. Brown being encamped at Chippewa, ordered Gen. Scott, with a brigade, and Towson's artillery, to make a movement on the Queenstown road, to take off the attention of the British from his stores Gen. Scott's move on the American side, which, he had heard, they threat- 1814. ened. Instead of this, Gen. Riall was moving towards the Americans with his whole force. Gen. Scott passed the grand cataract, and then became apprized of the enemy's presence and force. Transmitting an account to Gen. Brown, he instantly marched on, and fearlessly attacked. 9. His detachment maintained the fight for more than an hour, against a force seven times their number: and it became dark before the main army of the Americans, under Gen. Brown, came up. Gen. Ripley then perceiving how fatal to Scott's brigade was a British battery of nine pieces of artillery, said to Col. Miller, "Will you take yonder battery ?" "I'll try," said Miller; and at the head of the 21st regiment, he calmly marched up to the mouth of the blazing cannon, and took them. 6. What was the position and strength of the British army? 7. What account can you give of the battle of Chippewa? What was now the amount of the force under Gen. Riall? 8. Describe the commencement of the remarkable battle of Bridgewater?-9. What was done by Scott's detachment? When joined by the main army? What was done by Ripley and Miller ? ment and attack. bold Br. loss 878. Gens. Ripley and Drum mond wounded 294 BRIDGEWATER. 10. The eminence on which they were planted, was the key of the British position; and Gen. Ripley following with his regiment, it was kept, notwithstandbravery. ing the enemy, by the uncertain light of the waning moon, charged with the bayonet, till they were four Miller's Am. loss officers times repulsed. About midnight, they ceased to conBritish tend. The roar of the cataract alone was heard, as they loss 878. retired, and left their position and artillery to the Ame860, 11 ricans. Gens. Brown and Scott were both wounded; and the command after the battle, devolved on Gen. Ripley. He found no means of removing the artillery from the field. The British learning this, immediately re-occupied the ground, and hence, in writing to their government, they claimed the victory. were k. 56 w. 11. The American army, now reduced to 1,600, re 10. Was Miller's taking the battery important to the success of the Americans? What happened at midnight? What was the loss on both sides? |