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BRITISH sloop _Alert_ taken by the _Essex_, off
Newfoundland,--Aug. 13.
HULL surrendered Detroit,--Aug. 16.
THE _Guerriere_, British frigate, captured by the
_Constitution_, off Massachusetts,--Aug. 19.
BATTLE OF QUEENSTOWN, Canada; Van Rensselaer wounded, Brock
killed,--Oct. 13.
BATTLE OF LEWISTON, N. Y.; Cowardly conduct of American
militia,--Oct. 13.
BRITISH ship _Poictiers_ captured the _Frolic_ and Wasp,
off North Carolina,--Oct. 18.
BRITISH ship _Macedonia_ captured by _United States_, off
Canary Islands,--Oct. 25.
MISSOURI TERRITORY formed,--Dec. 7.
BRITISH frigate _Java_ captured by the _Constitution_,
off Bahia, Brazil,--Dec. 29.
1813. BATTLE OF FRENCHTOWN, Mich.; Winchester defeated by
Proctor,--Jan. 22.
BRITISH brig _Peacock_ captured the _Hornet_ off the
Demarara, South America,--Feb. 24.
MADISON began second presidential term,--March 4.
BATTLE OF YORK, Canada (now Toronto); explosion of British
magazine,--April 27.
FORT MEIGS besieged by 2,000 British and Indians under Proctor,--May 1.
GENERAL CLAY and I,200 Kentuckians dispersed besiegers,--May 5.
PBEVOST made an unsuccessful attack on Sackett's Harbor,--May 29.
THE _Chesapeake_, Captain Lawrence, captured by _the Shannon_,
in Massachusetts Bay,--June I.
DEFENCE OF FORT STEPHENSON (now Lower Sandusky, O.
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