The War on Land--Tecumseh's Indian Confederacy--Harrison at Tippecanoe-- General Hull and General Brock--A Fatal Armistice--Surrender of Detroit --English Masters of Michigan--General Harrison Takes Command in the Northwest--Harrison's Answer to Proctor--"He Will Never Have This Post Surrendered"--Croghan's Brave Defence--The British Retreat--War on the Niagara Frontier--Battle of Queenstown--Death of Brock--Colonel Winfield Scott and the English Doctrine of Perpetual Allegiance, 209 CHAPTER XXVI. Battle of Lake Erie--Master-Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry--Building a Fleet--Perry on the Lake--A Duel of Long Guns--Fearful Slaughter on the Lawrence--"Can Any of the Wounded Pull a Rope?"--At Close Quarters-- Victory in Fifteen Minutes--"We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Ours"-- The Father of Chicago Sees the End of the Battle--The British Evacuate Detroit--General Harrison's Victory at the Thames--Tecumseh Slain--The Struggle in the Southwest--Andrew Jackson in Command--Battle of Horseshoe Bend--The Essex in the Pacific--Defeat and Victory on the Ocean--Captain Porter's Brave Defence--Burning of Newark--Massacre at Fort Niagara-- Chippewa and Lundy's Lane--Devastation by the British Fleet--British Vandalism at Washington--Attempt on Baltimore--"The Star Spangled Banner" 216 CHAPTER XXVII. British Designs on the Southwest--New Orleans as a City of Refuge--The Baratarians--The Pirates Reject British Advances--General Jackson Storms Pensacola--Captain Reid's Splendid Fight at Fayal--Edward Livingston Advises Jackson--Cotton Bales for Redoubts--The British Invasion--Jackson Attacks the British at Villere's--The Opposing Armies--General Pakenham Attempts to Carry Jackson's Lines by Storm--The British Charge--They are Defeated with Frightful Slaughter--Pakenham Killed--Last Naval Engagement --The President-Endymion Fight--Peace--England Deserts the Indians as She Had Deserted the Tories--Decatur Chastises the Algerians, 225 SOUTH AMERICA FREE. CHAPTER XXVIII. England and Spanish America--A Significant Declaration--The Key to England's Policy in South America--Alexander Hamilton and the South Americans--President Adams' Grandson a Filibuster--Origin of the Revolutions in South America--Colonial Zeal for Spain--Colonists Driven to Fight for Independence--A War of Extermination--Patriot Leaders--The British Assist the Revolutionists--American Caution and Reserve--The Monroe Doctrine--Why England Championed the Spanish-American Republics --A Free Field Desired for British Trade--The Holy Alliance--Secretary Canning and President Monroe--The Monroe Declaration Not British, But American, 233 PROGRESS. CHAPTER XXIX.