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The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812

CHAPTER IV
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Vincent, the British general, reported his losses in killed and wounded and missing as three hundred and fifty-six.

The Americans suffered far less.

It was a clean-cut, workmanlike operation, and, according to an observer, "Winfield Scott fought nine-tenths of the battle." But the chief aim had been to destroy the British force, and in this the adventure failed.
General Dearborn was not at all reconciled to letting the garrison of Fort George get clean away from him, and he therefore sent General Winder in pursuit with a thousand men.

These were reinforced by as many more; and together they followed the trail of the retreating British to Stony Creek and camped there for the night.

Vincent and his sixteen hundred British regulars were in bivouac ten miles beyond.


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