Old Niagara County´s Share in the Battle of Lake Erie (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Old Niagara County´s Share in the Battle of Lake Erie Niagara County does not forget that she is the daughter of Genesee; nor that she is also the mother of Erie: and she is proud both of her ancestor and of her offspring. A century ago Niagara County embraced the whole of the present County of Erie; the latter being set off from her as a separate county in 1819. Of Perry´s fleet of ten armed vessels on Lake Erie, one half (five in all, four of them bought by the United States within her limits, the other captured from the British by an expedition which was planned within, and set out from, her borders) was made over into gunboats, put into fighting trim, and started out from old Niagara County. New York´s contribution to that famous fleet has not been sufficiently appreciated. The War of 1812 was the most important and the most long drawn out - as well as the most disastrous and destructive event - on the Niagara frontier in the early days of the United States. But besides the many operations right along our river, this frontier bore its part in some occurrences elsewhere during that war. The chief ones of this class were in connection with the control (first its loss and then its regain) of the upper lakes, and especially as regards Perry´s victory on Lake Erie; towards which Black Rock made most decided contributions. Five of the nine American vessels which were captured by the British on lakes Erie and Huron in July and August, 1812, were owned at Black Rock; three of them being captured at the surrender of Mackinaw. Ebenezer Crosby, a Niagara County man, had the contract to build, at Erie, four gunboats; three of which formed part of Perry´s victorious fleet. Five vessels of that fleet, with which Perry was ready to meet Commodore Barclay´s squadron, were prepared for service in Scajaquada Creek, in the winter of 1812. When the war was declared, about the middle of June, 1812, there were about 32 vessels, all told, on the upper lakes. 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.
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