[13] Fisher Ames.
[14] An attempt was made on Charleston, in June, 1776;
but the enemy were repulsed with great loss.
[15] Kendall’s Life of Jackson.
[16] In 1790, the “Territory South of the Ohio,” of
which Tennessee formed a part, was erected. Kentucky
was admitted into the Union as a State, in 1792.
[17] See Memoir of General Harrison, _ante_.
[18] Manriquez stated in his letter, that he had
requested the Captain General, at Havana, to forward
him a supply of arms and ammunition, for distribution
among the Indians. This was one of the circumstances
which justified the attack on Pensacola, by General
Jackson, in the fall of 1814.
[19] Lieutenant Armstrong evinced the utmost bravery on
this occasion. He was shot down, when the action was
at its height, but cried out to his men, as he lay
upon the ground,--“My brave fellows some of you must
fall, but _save the cannon_!”
[20] In 1810, the population was 17,242.
[21] Rockets were first used at the battle of Leipsic,
in October, 1813. The English rocket brigade in
that bloody engagement, was commanded by Captain
Bogue; and, after playing ten minutes on a solid
square of French infantry, they forced them to
surrender.--_Lord Londonderry’s War in Germany_, 172.
[22] In 1833, a card was published by General Lambert,
and four other British officers, of high rank, who
were engaged in the expedition against New Orleans,
denying, most emphatically, that this was the
countersign on the occasion alluded to in the text.
An order-book was found, however, on the field of
battle, which shows that the watchword was given. It
is very possible that the word may have been used
by a different division from that to which those
officers belonged; this is much more probable than
that they could be mistaken in their assertion.
[23] There is one consideration not often noticed in
connection with the defence of New Orleans, which
gives it additional importance. It is extremely
doubtful, whether the city would have been
surrendered to the Americans, under the treaty of
peace, had it been captured. Spain never cordially
acquiesced in the transfer of the territory of
Louisiana from France to the United States, and
her minister at Washington, the Marquis of Trujo,
formally protested against it. At this time England
was peculiarly zealous in taking care of Spanish
interests, and in a letter addressed to the American,
by the British Commissioners, at Ghent, on the 8th of
October, 1814, these facts were stated, and the right
of France to make the cession was seriously called in
question.
[24] Alison’s History of Europe, chap. lxxvi.
[25] See Memoir of General Gaines, _ante_.
[26] “L’amitie d’un grand homme, est un bienfait des
dieux.”--_Voltaire’s Oedipe._
[27] Alison’s History of Europe, chap. lxx.
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