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Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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DECATURS CONFLICT WITH THE ALGERINE AT TRIPOLI ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES MADISON. 537 Admiral Cochrane endeavored to inducethe slaves of Virginia and Maryland todesert their masters, and offered them freetransportation to the West Indies andCanada. As it was not known at what•.oint General Ross would land his troops,General Winder of Maryland was orderedto collect a force of fifteen thousand militiafrom the neighboring States. He proposedto occupy a central position from which hecould cover Warhington City, Annapolis,and Baltimore, and was anxious to call outthe militia at once ; but General Armstrong,the secretary of war, decided that it wouldbe time enough to call out the militia whenthe British had revealed their designs moreplainly. He did not believe the British hadany idea of advancing upon Washington,and thought Baltimore could defend itselfMr. Madison submitted to the decision ofthe secretary of war, and the national capita)was left defenceless. Attack on W^ashington. In the

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