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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blockade. (search)
commander-in-chief had won the respect of the inhabitants along the coast because of his honorable treatment of them. The blockade of New London Harbor continued twenty months, or during the remainder of the war. In the spring of 1814, all hopes of their being able to escape having faded, the United States and Macedonian were dismantled, and laid up just below Norwich, while the Hornet, after remaining in the Thames about a year, slipped out of the harbor and escaped to New York. On April 25, 1814, Admiral Cochrane declared the whole coast of the United States in a state of blockade. On June 29 the President of the United States issued a proclamation declaring the blockade proclaimed by the British of the whole coast of the United States, nearly 2,000 miles in extent, to be incapable of being carried into effect by any adequate force actually stationed for the purpose. It declared that it formed no lawful prohibition or obstacle to such neutral or friendly vessels as might desir
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hull, William 1753-1825 (search)
ay of the surrender. 4. Surrendering of Detroit. The specifications under the last charge were similar to those under the first. After a session of eighty days, the court decided, March 26, 1814, that he was not guilty of treason, but found him guilty of cowardice and neglect of duty, and sentenced him to be shot, and his name stricken from the rolls of the army. The court strongly recommended him to the mercy of the President on account of his age and his Revolutionary services. On April 25, 1814, the President approved the sentence of the court-martial, and on the same day the following order, bearing the signature of Adjutant-General Walbach, was issued: The rolls of the army are to be no longer disgraced by having upon them the name of Brig.-Gen. William Hull. The general courtmartial, of which General Dearborn is president, is hereby dissolved. For about twelve years Hull lived under a cloud. His applications to the War Department at Washington for copies of papers which w