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The generals of the last war with Great Britain. By: John S. Jenkins.

The generals of the last war with Great Britain. By: John S. Jenkins.

Jenkins, John S.

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ISBN10: 1546783547
ISBN13: 9781546783541
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 19 2017
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.38 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Jacob Brown.--Edmund Pendleton Gaines.--William Henry Harrison.--Andrew Jackson.--Alexander Macomb.--Zebulon Montgomery Pike.--Winfield Scott JACOB BROWN. The opening scenes of the second, and last contest, between the United States and Great Britain, were, to the former, disastrous in the extreme. The apprehension long entertained, and, in the western part of the Union, the openly avowed desire of a war with Spain, who took little pains to conceal her dissatisfaction with the cession of Louisiana, -and the protracted agitation of the various questions in dispute with England and France; the two great powers contending for the mastery, or, at least, the commercial supremacy in the world, -had aroused, in some degree, the patriotic emotions of our countrymen. The impressment of American seamen, the outrage on the Chesapeake, the affair of the Little Belt, and the acts of violence committed by the savages on the north-western frontier, -who were prompted and encouraged by the agents of the British government, -had also excited a war-spirit that needed but a breath to fan it into a flame. Volunteer companies for improvement in discipline, were everywhere formed; the regular milita

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