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Defence of Stonington

(CONNECTICUT)

AGAINST A BRITISH SQUADRON,

AUGUST 9TH TO 12TH, 1814.

"Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona."

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HARTFORD:

1864.

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE COPIES PRINTED.

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FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION.

[Transcriber's Note: the various spellings of Ramilies have been retained in the text.
Similarly, some opening quotes are not always matched with closing quotes.]

Introductory Note	page v
Record of the extraordinary Attack on Stonington	9
Names of Volunteers, from the Connecticut Gazette	20
Muster-roll of Capt. Wm. Potter's Company	22
Account of the Attack, published by the Borough authorities	24
Letter from Capt. Amos Palmer to the Secretary of War	33
Extract from Gen. Root's Speech in Congress, 1817	37
The Battle of Stonington, by Philip Freneau	38
Celebrations of the Anniversary	42
Notes	47

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE.

he repulse of a British squadron, at Stonington, by a few undisciplinedvolunteers, having only two effective guns, imperfectly protected by alow earth-work,—and this repulse accomplished without the loss of asingle life,—was not the least glorious achievement of the War of1812-14. The fiftieth annivers

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