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Title: The Mentor: The War of 1812
Volume 4, Number 3, Serial Number 103; 15 March, 1916.
Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
Release Date: December 22, 2008 [EBook #27586]
Language: English
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Heroes of the Fleet
PERRY
"September the tenth, full well I ween
In eighteen hundred and thirteen,
The weather mild, the sky serene,
Commanded by bold Perry,
Our saucy fleet at anchor lay
In safety, moor'd at Put-in Bay;
'Twixt sunrise and the break of day,
The British fleet
We chanced to meet;
Our admiral thought he would them greet
With a welcome on Lake Erie."
— Old Song
LAWRENCE
"Let shouts of victory for laurels won
Give place to grief for Lawrence, Valor's son.
The warrior who was e'er his country's pride
Has for that country bravely, nobly died."
— Lines published in June, 1813.
THE WAR OF 1812
By ALBERT BUSHNELL HART
Professor of Government, Harvard University
THE MENTOR · DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
MARCH 15, 1916
Our defeat of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War was conclusive; though we
in that case included France, without whose aid the patriots must have been defeated. It is not so easy to discover a fund of military glory in the War of 1812.
That was a great war year. Within a few days of the declaration of war by the United States against Great Britain, Napoleon's Grand Army of over 400,000 men crossed the Niemen into Russia. Six months later 4,000 of that host recrossed, pursued by the Russians; and probably not more than 100,000 of the whole number ever saw their homes again. In 1813, while the Americans were fighting on the ocean and on Lake Erie, Napoleon was driven out of Germany. A few weeks before the Battle of Lundy's Lane, Napoleon was compelled to abdicate. Soon after the news of the Peace of Ghent with Great Britain was received in the United States, in 1815, Napoleon broke loose from Elba; and a few months later he was again a prisoner and sent to St. Helena.
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Entered at the Postoffice at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. Copyright, 1916, by The Mentor Association, Inc.
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