Identifier: illustratedbuffa00bail (find matches)
Title: Illustrated Buffalo: the queen city of the lakes
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Bailey, George Milroy, 1862- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Acme publishing and engraving co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ams, taken by the enemy and sarcastically named after the recent American defeat. There are on boardfifty-eight British soldiers, including three commissioned officers, together with twenty-seven American soldierswho have been taken prisoners at Detroit. Elliott becomes enthused with the old Indians idea, and organizesan expedition to carry it out. He takes three boats, on the night of August 9th, with a detachment of sailorsjust arrived from New York and fifty regular soldiers, and at 1 a.m. pulls silently across the river. Dr. CyreniusChapin commands one boat. Sailing Master Watts another, and Elliott the remaining boat. Captain Towsen andLieutenant Roach, of the Second Artillery, with Ensign Prestman, command the soldiers, while the flotilla ispilotedby Capt. James Sloan, of Black Rock, who knows every inch of the river. The British are taken completelyby surprise. The Detroit and Caledonia are quickly boarded. A fierc? resistance is made, but in ten minute.* ILLUSTRATED ^^BWFAL0J^
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^v^ till Americans have made the enemy prisoners, and before tlie jiarrison at^^ Fort HIrie can fire a shot, they arc making down tlic river with their prizes,^ut one American soldier is killed and four wounded. On October 13th the British retaliated by bombarding Black Rock all ILLUSTRATED day. Several houses are damaged, and the terrified residents desert the town for shelter out of range. Onlyone man, a negro marine, is killed. The American force on the frontier numbers 5,206 on October 12th, distributed at BuSalo, Black Rock,Lewiston, and Fori Niagara. More than half are regular troops. The British forces are commanded by Maj.-Gcn. Sir Isaac Brock, K.B., a veteran, who has strengthened the fortifications at Fort Erie, and has built bat-teries opposite Breckenridge Street, Black Rock, and at Queenstown, Chippewa, and other points. The Britisihave three vessels on Lake Erie—the Queen Charlotte, twenty-two guns; the Hunter, twelve guns, and a smn ischooner. On the day of the bombar

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