OF

THE LATE WAR,

BETWEEN THE

UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN.

CONTAINING

AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT

OF THE

MOST IMPORTANT ENGAGEMENTS

BY

SEA AND LAND.

INTERSPERSED WITH INTERESTING

GEOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF THOSE PARTS OF THE COUNTRY

WHERE THE PRINCIPAL BATTLES WERE FOUGHT.

By J. C. GILLELAND.

BALTIMORE.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SCHAEFFER & MAUND.

O WW YORK

PUBLIC LIBRARY 241360A

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

R 1925 COPYRIGHT.

SEAL.

District of Maryland, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eighteenth day of January in the forty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, FREDERICK G. SCHAEFFER ******* & THOMAS MAUND,of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

"History of the late War, between the United States and Great Britain, containing an accurate account of the most important engagements by sea and land-Interspersed with interesting Geographical sketches of those parts of the country where the principal battles were fought. By J. C. Gilleland."

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PHILIP MOORE, Clerk of the District of Maryland?

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PREFACE.

The events of the late war have already exercised the pens of numerous writers, and certainly there could not be a more fruitful subject. The Author has attempted a concise narrative of the principal occurrences, freed from merit and unnecessary naval and mili tary details. The greater part of the works already published, are in too expensive a shape and bulk for general circulation, or for the use of schools. It is not every petty skirmish, or the unintelligible details of naval affairs, which is suited to the youthful mind: it is only from those important actions which shed honour on our country, that instruction can be derived.

What volume so favourable to the formation of the youthful mind, as that which asserts the dignity of our country, which records the glorious actions of our countrymen, and which proves, that our national character has risen under the influence of our political institutions? The Author has therefore thrown in the back ground, the minor events of the late glorious war, in order to placing in a more conspicuous point of view, those of a more important character. Our soldiers and sailors have done their duty, it remains for the children of the muses to do theirs.