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Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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New Orleans but themouth of the Mississippi from British con-trol. Had the army of General Pakenhambeen successful, there is good reason tobelieve that England would have refused torelinquish the Mississippi, and the war wouldhave gone on, or peace would have beenmade with the mouth of the great riverunder the control of England. The victoryclosed the war, and was won as we shall seethree weeks after the treaty of peace wassip-ned. At sea the war was carried on by the fewAmerican cruisers that managed to eludethe blockade of our coast. The frigate Essex, Commodore Porter, went to seain 1813, and made a number of captures inthe Atlantic. Learning that the Britishwhalers, which had been armed for the pur-pose of capturing American vessels, engagedin the same trade, were doing considerabledamage in the Pacific, Commodore Portefsailed around Cape Horn and entered thaiocean. He captured twelve armed Britishwhalers in the course of a few months,and then learning tha< the British frigate
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CO < a•JPio .^E-H <: 6-O 2; Q <; <Ui 544 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVH. WAR Phoebe had been sent in pursuit of him,Porter sailed to Valparaiso to look for her.While he lay there the Phoebe, accompa-nied by the English sloop of war Cherub,arrived off the harbor. The Phoebe was herself a full matchfor the Essex, but Porter resolved to fightboth vessels. As he was leaving the harbora sudden squall carried away his maintop-mast, and left him at the mercy of his ene-mies, which at once attacked him. Hisdefence was one of the most gallant and

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