Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...on this subject. Very respct. I am with esteem, your obt. servt. T. Macdonough. Maj. Gen. Izard U. S. Army, Plattsburg. General Izard replied on the 19th to Macdonough's suggestion by saying: " The absence of the chief engineer attached to this army prevents me from immediately determining on the propriety of occupying the Point au Roche, which you think the best for the protection of your vessels should a superior force make it 1814 necessary for you to retire from your present position. To-morrow, before night, a battery of four eighteen pounders shall be established on Cumberland Head near the point which we visited together, and from thence a further removal can be made as circumstances may make it advisable." It had been General Wilkinson's intention to erect a battery at Rouse's Point to command the mouth of the river and there was more or less correspondence between the Secretary of War and General Izard on the same subject, but the plan was finally abandoned as no longer practicable. From now until the end of August the American squadron remained at the lower end of the lake blockading the British vessels in the Richelieu River. On June 28 Sailing Master Vallette destroyed, near the line, two spars which were being towed down the lake, presumably intended for the foremast and mizzenmast of the enemy's new ship, and on the night of July 7 Midshipman Abbot captured, four miles over the line, four more spars supposed to be the ship's mainmast and three topmasts. A large raft consisting of planks and spars and loaded with twenty-seven barrels of tar was taken by two of our galleys a mile from the line July 23 and six or eight of our worthy citizens who were found thereon were handed over to the civil authorities for trial on...
