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emy. During the whole of the war of 1812, Southern territory remained untrod by hostile foot, except in hasty raids extending a few miles from the shore. The occupation of a narrow portion of Maryland between the Bay and the Potomac was but for a few weeks, when the enemy found it proper to disembark. The hasty descent upon Washington city and the march across Maryland ending in discomfiture, is the only semblance of invasion which the South suffered during the war. The brief career of Packenham in Louisiana, ending in his signal catastrophe at New Orleans, was but a disastrous attempt at invasion. During the Revolution the case was very little different. Owing to the meagerness of our population, the British got possession of Charleston, and made successful raids into Virginia under Arnold and others, while her troops were fighting in the Carolinas and up-holding Washington at the North; but these were but rapid plunder excursions, attended by none of the results of success