Author: Robert B. McAfee

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Published: 2015-07-03

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 9781330650936

Excerpt from History of the Late War in the Western Country Considerably over one hundred years have passed since this story of the war of 1812 was written. Peace was proclaimed February 18, 1815. This work came from the press in 1816, and in preparing the manuscript Captain McAfee had the direct assistance of General Harrison, Colonels Croghan and Todd and many others and had access to the journal of Colonel Wood, the engineer who built Fort Meigs and who kept a remarkable diary of an important period of these events as they transpired. With such an array of material and backed by the ability of the author himself to portray events and movements of troops, Captain McAfee has undoubtedly given the most valuable, authentic and close-up narrative, especially of the western operations in this struggle ever written. Franklin would have called it the War of Independence, for it is related that when lie heard some one speak of the "War of Independence" (1776) he said, "Sir, you mean the Revolution, the War of Independence is yet to come." It is with a view of perpetuating this valuable work to the people that the publisher is lead to reproduce the same complete, and in full with some explanatory field notes, as the original copies of the hook are fast passing out of existence. And while many later historians, perhaps nearly all, have used the work as a basis for their writings, historians and readers, we believe, will welcome the complete narrative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.