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

CHAPTER IV
19/35

The reinforcements came to the number of a hundred and fifty, but the British also appeared with forty-seven more men.

Colonel Boerstler thereupon surrendered his total of five hundred and forty soldiers.

General Dearborn, still the nominal commander of the forces, sadly mentioned the disaster as "an unfortunate and unaccountable event." There is a better account to be given, however, of events at Sackett's Harbor in this same month of May.

The operations on the Niagara front had stripped this American naval base of troops and of the protection of Chauncey's fleet.

Sir George Prevost, the Governor in Chief of Canada, could not let the opportunity slip, although he was not notable for energy.


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