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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Duko of Wellington was not so severe as other critics, und hesitated to say tlmt 1'rcvost was wrong; " though of this I am certain, he must equally have returned. after the fleet was beaten; and I am inclined to think he was right. I have told the miui.s- ters repeatedly that a naval Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Duko of Wellington was not so severe as other critics, und hesitated to say tlmt 1'rcvost was wrong; " though of this I am certain, he must equally have returned. after the fleet was beaten; and I am inclined to think he was right. I have told the miui.s- ters repeatedly that a naval superiority on the Lke- is a M'in- ifun non of sueeess in war on the frontier of Canada, even if our object should he wholly defensive." ' Yet the puke in conversation seemed to think that his army in Canada was also at fault. "He had sent them some of his best troops from Bordeaux," ho said five-and-twenty years afterward,1 "but they did not turn out ojiite right; they wanted this iron fist to command them." Meanwhile Major-General Izard, by Armstrong's order, marched his four thousand men as far as possible from the points of attack. Starting from Champlain, August 29, the army reached Sackett's Harbor September 17, having marched about two hundred and eighty miles in twenty days. At Sackett's Harbor Izard found no orders from the government, for the government at that time had ceased to perform its functions; but he received an earnest np- peal from General Drown to succor Fort Eric. "I will not conceal from you," wrote Hrown, September 10,3" that I consider the fate of this army very doubtfulunless speedy relief is afforded." hard, who had no menus of testing the correctIichh of thin opinion, decided to follow Brown's wishes, and made, September 17, the necessary preparations. Violent stormsprevented Chauncey from embarking the troops until September 21; but September '11 the troops reached Batavia, and I/.ard met Brown by appointment. The army had then been a month in movement. The distance was more than four hundred miles, and no energy could have shortened the time so much Books, History~~General, History-of-the-United-States-of-America~~Henry-Adams, 999999999, History of the United States of America (Volume 8), Henry Adams, 1152316524, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<