A Warlike month.
Certain months, not less than certain days, appear to have been set apart by
Providence for the enactment of those terrible dramas, the denouement of which is the overthrow of armies, and sometimes the downfall of nations.
No season has been more prolific of these great events than September.
It may be amusing to our readers, whose minds are on the stretch for great tidings from the
Potomac, to recall a few incidents connected with battle, murder and sudden death.
On the 2d day of September, 1814,
General Gaines repulsed the
British army at
Fort Erie On the 3d of September, 1650,
Cromwell routed and destroyed the Scottish army under
David Leslie at
Dunbar.
On the 3d of September, 1652, he did the same job at
Worcester for Charles II. On the 3d of September 1659, he died.
There are few coincidences in all history more singular than these.
On the seventh of September, 1812, was fought the great battle of
Borodino, in Russia, seventy miles from
Moscow.
According to some accounts, the loss on both sides was ninety-seven thousand men. One account makes it out one hundred and seventeen thousand.--It was one of the bloodiest battles of modern times.
On the 8th of September, 1781.
General Green defeated the
British army at
Eutaw Springs.
On the 8th of September, 1847,
General Taylor defeated the Mexicans at
Monterey.
On the 8th of September, 1855, the Allies stormed
Sebastopol.
On the 10th of September, 1813.
Perry defeated and captured the whole British fleet on
Lake Erie.
This battle was fought on Sunday.
On the 11th of September, 1709, Marle Rough and Eugene fought the battle of Malploquet, against
Villars commanding the
French army.
It was the greatest battle that had been fought in modern
Europe to that time.
The two armies counted upwards of two hundred thousand combatants.
On the 11th of September, 1814,
McDonough, on
Lake Champlain, destroyed the British fleet while Macombe defeated the
British army on shore at
Plattsburgh.
This also happened on Sunday.
On the 12th of September, 1814, the
British army, marching upon
Baltimore, was repulsed at
North Point, where
General Ross was killed.
On the 13th of September,
Fort McHenry was bombarded (see ‘"Star Spangled Banner."’) --On the 14th September, A. D. 69, Fires entered
Jerusalem, over the corpses of one million of Jews.
On 14th of September, 1812,
Napoleon entered
Moscow.
On the 14th September, 1847. the
American army entered
Mexico.
On the 14th September, 1854, the Allied army entered the Crimes.
We think it highly probably that September 1861, will not past southern movement which will rank it with the bloodless of its predecessors.
