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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 4 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Battles. (search)
ormer defeated)Aug. 14, 1813 Hornet and Peacock (latter defeated)Aug. 24, 1813 American fleet of nine vessels and British fleet of six vessels on Lake Erie (latter defeated)Sept. 10, 1813 Essex and the Phoebe and Cherub (former surrendered)Mar. 28, 1814 Wasp and Reindeer (latter defeated)June 28, 1814 Wasp and Avon (latter defeated)Sept. 1, 1814 American fleet of sixteen vessels and the British fleet on Lake Champlain (latter defeated)Sept. 11, 1814 President and the Endymion, Majestic, ormer defeated)Aug. 14, 1813 Hornet and Peacock (latter defeated)Aug. 24, 1813 American fleet of nine vessels and British fleet of six vessels on Lake Erie (latter defeated)Sept. 10, 1813 Essex and the Phoebe and Cherub (former surrendered)Mar. 28, 1814 Wasp and Reindeer (latter defeated)June 28, 1814 Wasp and Avon (latter defeated)Sept. 1, 1814 American fleet of sixteen vessels and the British fleet on Lake Champlain (latter defeated)Sept. 11, 1814 President and the Endymion, Majestic,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Essex, the, (search)
above, making a total of twenty-eight guns. Her crew numbered 180. the Essex at that time could muster only 225, and the Essex Junior only sixty. the Essex had forty 32-pounder carronades and The Essex and her prizes in Massachusetts Bay, Nooaheevah. six long 12-pounders; and the Essex Junior had only ten 18-pounder carronades and ten short sixes. The British vessels blockaded Porter's ships. At length he determined to escape. The sails of his vessels were spread for the purpose (March 28, 1814), and both vessels started for the open sea, when a squall partially disabled the flagship, and both took shelter in a bay. There they were attacked by the Phoebe and Cherub, and one of the most desperate and sanguinary battles of the war ensued. When at last the Essex was a helpless wreck and on fire, and his magazine was threatened—when every officer but one was slain or disabled; when, of the 225 brave men who went into the fight on board of her, only seventy-five effective ones rema
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), War of 1812, (search)
rk, Canada, and evacuates Fort George, opposite Fort Niagara (he is severely censured)......Dec. 10, 1813 Fort Niagara captured by the British......Dec. 19, 1813 Buffalo and Black Rock burned by the British and Indians......Dec. 30, 1813 General Jackson defeats and crushes the Creek Indians at Great Horse Shoe Bend, on the Tallapoosa......March 27, 1814 Frigate Essex, Capt. David Porter, surrenders to the British ships Phoebe and Cherub in the harbor of Valparaiso, Chile......March 28, 1814 General Wilkinson, with about 2,000 troops, attacks a party of British, fortified in a stone mill, at La Colle, Lower Canada, near the north end of Lake Champlain, and is repulsed......March 30, 1814 British blockade extended to the whole coast of the United States......April 23, 1814 Sloop-of-war Peacock captures the British brig Épervier off the coast of Florida with $118,000 in specie......April 29, 1814 British attack and destroy the fort at Oswego, N. Y.......May 6, 18