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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesaction Admiralty American State Papers anchored army arrived attack August August 14 Barclay batteaux battery blockade boats brig Britain British broadside Brown Caledonia campaign Canada Canadian Archives Captain capture carronades Castlereagh Chauncey Chauncey's Chesapeake coast Cochrane command Commodore Confiance convoy crew cruise cruisers defence Detroit Drummond effect enemy enemy's engagement fighting fire fleet force frigate frontier Government gunboats hostile hundred Ibid Indians Island Izard July June killed Kingston Lake Champlain Lake Erie Lake Ontario land Lawrence letter lieutenant Liverpool long guns Lord Castlereagh Macdonough ment miles military militia movement Naval Chronicle Navy Department Niagara Niagara peninsula Niles officer Ontario operations peace Perry Perry's Plattsburg port position Prevost prizes Queen Charlotte re-enforcements Register reported river Sackett's Harbor sail schooners seamen Secretary ship shore shot side Sir James Yeo sloop squadron success superior tion troops United vessels wind wounded wrote York Popular passagesPage 211 - To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression. This may even prevent the necessity of going to war by discouraging belligerent powers from committing such violations of the rights of the neutral party as may, first or last, leave no other option. Page 431 - Woods, to decide to which of the two parties the several islands lying in the lakes, water communications, and rivers, forming the said boundary, do respectively belong, in conformity with the true intent of the said treaty of peace of one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three; and to cause such parts of the said boundary as require it to be surveyed and marked. Page 125 - You will feel it as a compliment if I say that the result of our meeting may be the most grateful service I can render to my country; and I doubt not that you, equally confident of success, will feel convinced that it is only by repeated triumphs, in even combats, that your little navy can now hope to console your country for the loss of that trade it can no longer protect. Favour me with a speedy reply. We are short of provisions and water, and cannot stay long here. Page 86 - Niagara, gallantly into close action; I immediately went on board of her, when he anticipated my wish by volunteering to bring the schooners, which had been kept astern by the lightness of the wind, into close action. Page 400 - Thus situated, with about one fifth of my crew killed and wounded, my ship crippled, and a more than four-fold force opposed to me, without a chance of escape left, I deemed it my duty to surrender. Page 434 - The war has renewed and reinstated the national feelings and character which the Revolution had given and which were daily lessened. The people have now more general objects of attachment with which their pride and political opinions are connected. They are more Americans ; they feel and act more as a nation, and I hope that the permanency of the Union is thereby better secured. Page 262 - ... the whole American coast under blockade, it is equally distressing and mortifying, that our ships cannot with safety traverse our own channels; that insurance cannot be effected but at an excessive premium ; and that a horde of American cruisers should be allowed unheeded, unresisted, unmolested, to take, burn, or sink our own vessels, in our own inlets, and almost in sight of our own harbors. Page 402 - Considering the advantages derived by the enemy, from a divided and more active force, as also their superiority in the weight and number of guns, I deem the speedy' and decisive result of this action the strongest assurance which can be given to the government, that all under my command did their duty, and gallantly supported the reputation of American seamen. Page 264 - On mature consideration, it has been decided, that under all the circumstances above alluded to, incident to a prosecution of the war, you may omit any stipulation on the subject of impressment, if found indispensably necessary to terminate it. Page 103 - After this exposition, it is unnecessary to add, that in conducting the present campaign, you will make Kingston your primary object, and that you will choose (as circumstances may warrant) between a direct and indirect attack upon that post. 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