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Excerpt from The Naval War of 1812, Vol. 2: The History of the United States Navy During, the Last War With Great Britain, to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Coast was kept up with ever increasing rigor. The British frigates hovered like hawks off every seaport that was known to harbor any fighting craft; they almost invariably went in couples, to support one another and to lighten, as far as was possible, the severity of their work. On the northern coasts in particular, the intense cold of the furious winter gales rendered it no easy task to keep the assigned stations; the ropes were turned into stiff and brittle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Naval War of 1812, Vol. 2: The History of the United States Navy During, the Last War With Great Britain, to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Alison, Sir A. History of Europe Ninth edition. 20 vols. London, 1852. Pages 472, 477, 483. 485. Butler, Adjutant-General Robert. Official Report for the Morning of Jan. 8. 1815. Page 476. Codrington. Admiral Sir Edward. Memoir of, by Lady Bourchier. London, 1873. Pages 472, 475, 476. 484. Cole, John William. Memoirs of British Generals Distinguished during the Peninsular War. London, 1856. Pages 476, 490. Court of Inquiry on Conduct of General Morgan. Official Report. Page 484. Gleig, Ensign H. R. Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington, Baltimore, and New Orleans. Philadelphia, 1821. Pages, 466, 469, 470, 471, 472, 473. 477, 488. Jackson, Andrew. As a Public Man. A sketch by W. G. Sumner. Boston, 1882. Page 490. Jackson, General Andrew. Official Letters. Pages 465, 487. James, William. Military Occurrences of the Late War. 2 vols. London, 1818. Pages 464. 471. 476. 484. 490. Keane, Major-General John. Letter, December 26, 1814. Pages 460, 466, 468. Lambert, General. Letters, January 10 and 28, 1815. Pages 485, 487. Latour, Major A. Lacarriex. Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana. Translated from the French by H. P. Nugent. Philadelphia, 1816. Pages 461. 462, 469, 470, 471, 477, 478, 479. 483. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.