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.

SECOND EDITION.

By J. C. GILLELAND.

BALTIMORE:

Printed and published by Schaeffer & Maund

COPY-RIGHT.

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 SEAL. States of America, FREDERICK G. SHAEFFER and 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."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned;" and also to the Act, entitled, "An Act, supplementary to the Act entitled, "An Act, for the encouragement of learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other Prints.”

PHILIP MOORE, Clerk of the District of Maryland,

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PREFACE.

1

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 voluminous and unnecessary naval and military 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 honor on our country, that instruction can be derived.