Cost of transportation to the northern frontier -- English fleet on our coast -- Chesapeake blockaded -- Blockade of the whole coast -- Cockburn attacks Frenchtown -- Burns Havre De Grace -- Attacks Georgetown and Frederickstown -- Arrival of British reinforcements -- Attack on Craney Island -- Barbarities committed in Hampton -- Excitement caused by these outrages -- Commodore Hardy blockades the northern coast -- Torpedoes -- Hostile attitude of Massachusetts -- Remonstrances of its legislature -- Feeling of the people, 257 CHAPTER XII. Perry obtains and equips a fleet on Lake Erie -- Puts to sea -- Kentucky marines -- Description of the battle -- Gallant bearing of Perry -- Slaughter on the Lawrence -- Perry after the battle -- Burial of the officers -- Exultation of the people -- Harrison advances on Maiden -- flight of Proctor -- Battle of the Thames, and death of Tecumseh, 271 CHAPTER XIII. Wilkinson takes command of the northern army -- Plan of the campaign -- Hampton entrusted with the 5th military district and takes position at Plattsburg -- Quarrel between the two Generals -- Hampton advances, against orders, into Canada: is defeated -- Concentration of Wilkinson's army -- Moves down the St. Lawrence -- Its picturesque aspect -- Harassed by the enemy -- Battle of Chrystler's field -- Hampton refuses to join him -- The expedition abandoned and the armies retire to winter-quarters -- Disappointment and indignation of the war party, and gratification of the Federalists -- Abandonment of Fort George and burning of Newark -- Loss of Fort Niagara and burning of Buffalo and the settlements along the river -- Retaliation -- Gloomy close of the campaign, 291 CHAPTER XIV. 1813--1814. Winter operations -- Decatur challenges Commodore Hardy to meet the United States and Macedonian with two of his frigates -- Wilkinson's second invasion, of Canada -- Battle of la Cole Mill -- Holmes' expedition into Canada -- Romantic character of our border warfare -- Inroad of the British marines to Saybrook and Brockaway's Ferry, 310 CHAPTER XV. THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. MAY 27, 1813.