A FULL AND CORRECT ACCOUNT OF THE MILITARY OCCURRENCES OF THE LATE WAR BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; WITH AN APPENDIX, AND PLATES. BY WILLIAM JAMES, AUTHOR OF A FULL AND CORRECT ACCOUNT OF THE CHIEF Alterum alterius auxilio eget. SALLUST. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. London: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR: AND SOLD BY BLACK, KINGSBURY, PARBURY, AND ALLEN, LEADENHALL-STREET; TO LIEUT.-COLONEL JOHN HARVEY, C. B. DEPUTY-ADJUTANT-GENERAL OF HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES IN THE CANADAS; WHO, BESIDES DISTINGUISHING HIMSELF ON SEVERAL OTHER OCCASIONS, DURING THE LATE AMERICAN WAR, DID, AT MIDNIGHT, ON THE FIFTH OF JUNE, 1813, PLANNED BY HIMSELF, IN WHICH SEVEN HUNDRED AND FOUR BRITISH SURPRISED, AND, AFTER A SHORT STRUGGLE, DROVE FROM THEIR FORTIFIED ENCAMPMENT, NEAR STONEY CREEK, IN UPPER CANADA, THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AMERICANS: AN EXPLOIT WHICH TENDED, IN A HIGH DEGREE, TO THE SAFETY OF TWO VALUABLE BRITISH PROVINCES; THIS WORK IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY THE AUTHOR. |