...h Fulton offered a plan, and the authorizing the purchase, for $225,000, of the vessels captured on Lake Erie. At a cost of about $2,000,000 in bounties, 14,000 recruits were obtained, of whom the New England States furnished more than all the rest of the States put together. At the beginning of August, 1814, Armstrong, the Secretary of War, ordered General Izard, in command of a large body of troops ...