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Title: A history of the people of the United States, from the revolution to the civil war
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: McMaster, John Bach, 1852-1932
Subjects: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Mormons
Publisher: New York, Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ops ashore. The traveller who, in our day, comesto New Orleans from Mobile by railroad, just as he reachesthe extreme southeastern corner of Louisiana is hurried acrossan island formed by the two mouths of the Pearl river. Ris-ing a few feet above the surrounding marsh, it is at timesdry ground, and it was on this, the Isle aux Poix of the Cre-oles, that the British forces were landed. But so difficult wasthe undertaking that a week was spent in carrying seven thou-sand men in small boats over the thirty miles between theships and the island. While this was going on, two officerswho were sent to examine the head of the lake made theirway in the night to a village of Spanish fishermen just atthe mouth of Bayou Bien venue, where they were well receivedand carried in canoes up the bayou and through one of itsbranches to the Viller6 plantation, not six miles from the city.There at their leisure they chose the line of advance, and then t g s 0 s 3 aS£»ft ■a B ^ 1 Sai 11° ssi& sU s
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1814. LANDING OF THE ENGLISH. 186 went back unmolested to the island.* They departed just intime, for, forty-eight hours later, a sergeant and eight menreached the village to do duty as pickets. As soon as the troops had all been landed on Isle auxPoix, sixteen hundred and eighty-eight of them were de-spatched to make their way to the Mississippi. They set outon the morning of the twenty-second, surprised the picketat the fishing village on the morning of the twenty-third, andpushed up the Bayou Bienvenue to the little Bayou Mazant,and- so to the mouth of a draining canal, where they landed,and, marching along its bank through a wood, came suddenlyupon the house of Major Yiller6 and made him and all hisfamily prisoners. They were then but six miles from NewOrleans, without a fortification of any kind between them andthe city. Happily Major Yillere broke from his captors, reachedNew Orleans in safety, and reported to Jackson what had hap-pened. It was long past noon, and, the people ha

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