A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army, at Washington, Baltimore, and New Orleans, Under Generals Ross, Pakenham, and Lambert, in the Years 1814 and 1815 With Some Account of the Countries Visited (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army, at Washington, Baltimore, and New Orleans, Under Generals Ross, Pakenham, and Lambert, in the Years 1814 and 1815: With Some Account of the Countries Visited

Here we are, at anchor in the Garcmne, and waiting for a favourable breeze to prosecute our voyage. That America is our destination we all know; but whether we are to proceed to Canada, or against some part of the United States, none but those at the head of affairs can tell. The secret, however, is one which cammt long be kept, be cause a few weeks will bring us so far on our way, as to enable evm'y man to judge for himself. I slmll not, therefore, weary your patience by idly guessing at what must so soon be a certainty, but shall rather endeavour, in the mean time, to amuse you with an account of our motions since the peace, particularly of our march through the southern parts of Gascony to our present ?oating quarters.

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