[Gutenberg 18479] • The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815
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- Authors
- Gleig, G.R.
- Tags
- new orleans , battle of , history , united states -- history -- war of 1812 -- personal narratives , 1814 , 1815 , washington (d.c.) -- history -- capture by the british , united states -- history -- war of 1812 -- campaigns , la.
- Date
- 1821-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
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- 0.23 MB
- Lang
- en
Excerpt from The Campaigns of the British Army: At Washington and New Orleans, in the Years 1814-1815
And conquest had produced in the arrangements of general society, ceased, as if by magic, to be felt, or at least to be acknowledged. It seemed, indeed, as if all which had been passing during the last twenty or thirty years, had passed not in reality, but in a dream so perfectly unlooked for were the issues of a struggle, to which, in whatever light we may regard it, the history of the whole world presents no parallel.