Reminiscences Of The Campaign Of 1814 On The Niagara Frontier

Author : David Bates Douglass
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333929657
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of the Campaign of 1814, on the Niagara Frontier written by David Bates Douglass and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of the Campaign of 1814, on the Niagara Frontier: From the Papers of the Late David B. Douglass, LL. D., Formerly Captain of Engineers, U. S. A.; Communicated by His Children, for Publication in the Historical Magazine There was surely no lack of interest in the subject; and yet, after an interval of thirty years, no historian had been found to record these events, either for the honor of the country or its guidance in a future War. Even the Regiments which fought on our side had been dismembered, broken up, and scattered, and the record of their respective achievements ut terly lost; while those that fought against us had been enriched with every species of armo rial honor; and, even to this hour, in every part of the world where they appear, to be quartered, they are paraded under the historic memorials of our niagara, our fort erie, our plattsburg, and our baltimore, in common with those of vittoria, salamanca, and the Pumas. There are some, perhaps, who find an excuse for the indifference, to which I have alluded, in the errors and disasters of the War, as if the national pride might be wounded by an impartial narrative. Such a sentiment has, not unfrequently, been expressed in my hearing; but can it be needful to repel it, on this occa sion and before this audience? If it were well founded, how weak would it be to shut our eyes to the lessons of experience from any consider ation of this kind. In the discipline of com mon life, our most useful lessons are often drawn from our most painful experiences; and, in the complicated operations of War, neither the esprit dc corps nor the higher tactics are to be acquired without severe con icts and some hu miliating trials of disaster and defeat. If the fact were, indeed, as the objectors represent, it would be the more necessary for us to make it matter of history, that we might be guarded against the like disasters, in future - for history is the m anory of the State. 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."