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LITERARY REVIEtV.

A PULL and CORRECT ' ACCOUNT of I.lle MILITARY
OCCURRENCES .of the LATE WAR between GREAT
BRITAIN and the UNITED STATES of AMF.RICA;7
with an Appendix and Plates. By. Wm. JAMES, Author of
" A Foil and Correct Account of the Chief Naval Occur-
treticesi" &c.—:-Two vols. Bvo. pp, ION; 1818.

Mr...tAky's's Naval Wolk (of which sec a Re-
view in Tits SUN of July or August, 1S17) had
already acquired no slight reputation, when a
Milithrg Work, by the same Author, appeared
before the Public. The professional knowledge
displayed in Ole Naval Volume led us to ccinelude;
that the Author was either " Wn.1.1,61 JAMES,"
the Commander, or " WILLIAM JAMES," the
Lieutenant., in Mr. MURRAY's Navy List ; and,
with that impression on our minds, we were, we
confess, 'upon seeing the Author'i'annonticeMent
of his intended Military Rork, somewhat alarmed
lest, in attempting a subject 'so difficult to be
handled by any hut a practitioner, he should en-
danger his well-earned fame. The very second
page of the '' Preface" to the " Military Occur-
rences" informs us, however, that Mr. JAMES iS
"no Naval •Offieer." Thus 'cast adrift in our
conjectures, we were,.while perusing his second
work, about to assign him some rank iu the Mi-
litary profession, when we are told by a friend,
that our Author is neither soldier'nor

The operations of the two services, although
separately discussed by our Author, strictly rutin
but one subject, a history of the war in which
they were engaged. To render, therefove,
.the
Military Work, as well in show as in substance,,
the companion to tbe•NaVal one, our kuthor has
judiciously employed a uniform typeand paper.-;
Connecting the works still more closely, be has
In his " Preface" to the Military one, answered
4 long erring of objections raised in the' United
States against some•Of his,NaVal. statements and
hds afterwards entered at lengthintO several naval
engagements (partitulatly on the coast and fresh-
Water lakes), which he had accidentally omitted,
or, for want Of Materials, not been enabled to
detail, in'his first
The Military Work contains seven well exe-
cuted plates, illnstrative of the.subject. Among
them we observe one, -a chart of " Part Of Lake
Ontario and of the River St. Lawrence, from an
actual survey b'y Captain W. F. W. OvvtN, R. N."
that would, we should imagine, greatly augment
the value of the book to our friends in the Ca-
nadas. Suspeetin, the source whence this chart
must have been obtained, and observing, among
the " Subsciibers" in front of the work, the
Ldrds Commissioners of the Admiralty" do am
for "20 copies," their Lordships, if we recolleCt
ari.glir, having previously taken 40 copies of the
Naval Work, we feel gratified in believing, that
our Author's successful efforts, in sustaining the
naval renown of his Country, have been by theth
properly appreciated.

One peculiar merit belongs to both Mr. JAMEs's
works, that of allowing free admittance, on every
occasion, 16 the statements of the enemy. This
gives an air of impartiality to the discusSion,
vain►ly sought after in any other historical work,
of home or foreig,n 'production, with which we
are acquainted. The gross misrepresentations of
the American historians, and the method adopted
by our Author to tree his work from so dis-
graceful a stain, are thus adverted to in the
" Preface" !

" A Prenclimanii contented to boast, that the best soldiers
of his country hare beaten an equal number of ours. But
an American historian will gravely tell y;itt, that ' about 200
raw, undisciplined, American militia, entirely routed 600
veteran British regulars;' aye, and that' with the bayonet'
too : or, if the Americans are ;lescrib'etl as the nutted party,
it is,--' after a desperate struggle with five times their num-
ber.' Noue Of these gentlemen think it worth their while to
advance any authority for even the most improbable •fact•
In deipite of our reason we are to credit their nalied asser-
tions; and to confess, that the herOeS of the new, are giants
in prowess, compared to the heroes of the old world. Scarce-
ly is a battle recorded, wherein the superiority of numbers
was not on the British side; unless, indeed, an opposite
statement would serve to heap disgrace upon a certain com-
mander, because be happens to differ in political tenets from
that party, to whose sinister purposes' the writer has devoted
his talents and his conscience.

" When a national otlicer does, as he always should, ex-
plicitly state the amount and quality of his own force, no one
has a right to-dispute his word; but assertions respect-
ing
the torce of an enemy, unless nearly the whole number
that engaged hint became his prisoners, ought to be received
with caution. A General may find it convenient to show au
extended front, of only one or two files deep, and thus de-
••••. •
ceive his opponent. A few stragglers in a wood may be con-
sidered as part of a larger hotly; or a severe unexpected re-
pulse may induce the retreating troops, from their fears
alone, to magnify the numbor of their foes. Fur this reason
-chiefly it is, that the author has resolved to take each party's
positive enumeration of his own force, in preference to the
loose statementstod ragu'e conjectures, too t-,fteu admitted
'into the opposite official accounts.
" In a work of details like the present, many facts must
be adinitted,' having Mi* official foundatiou on either side-
llele the reader, heyorsd the tale of probability; hits only the
author's -veracity to trust to. Upou that NMI, he deems it
proper to state, that i.O his military, as in his naval ,vork,
utiotikia facts are the result of dit ect applicati,.iis to citli&i.s
of lott and respectsbdity; but whose (as must Le oh-
Nita's) he is not, is all cases, at liberty to disc:lac. Should,
however, any oils-statement have ineatitiously•ciclit into tlii
hal-railer, military or naval, the _author. would he happy to
receive, and, When an:upportirnity otters, to make public, an
authenticated Correct-Rm." Preface, p.
Occupied,
during the w httie lie late Anierii•an
contest, with matters or a kindred told greater
magnitude transacting •iu Europe, we. "'I little
time, and less ineltuation, to enter sery derlti'Y
into the saccesB•til otir ar:ll3 on the uppositc shore!

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of the Atlantic. Th,it, however, the warfare
carried on there was nut (pile of a petty descrip-
tion; 'is proved by the tact disclosed in' Mr.
..lES's book, that the gro,s amount ot the kille'd,
wounded, and missing, on hoth sides, during the
war, vs apparent on the faCe of the different state-
Ments he has brought foryard, exceeded 18,000
Men, -Few ot the engagements, owing perhaps
to the nature of the grouted, appear to have been,
conducted according to Eu,ropean tactics. There
is, hOWever, a remarkable exception it, tLe battle
'of Chrystler's furor, fOti-gbton the 11th of Nov,
1.813 ; and in Which the British, amounting to
830 men, under Lieur.•Colonel MonalsoN, com-
pletely defeated the Americans, amounting, as
proved, to 2500 men, under Brigadier-General

" Tlithesto," says our author, " the battles between the
BritiSh and American troops had been chiefly iitab-lighiltsg
slsirmishes. Now they met in an open campaign, where.
there was no shelter for the American riflemen, nor rests fur.
their pieces. All was conducted, 4s General Wilkinson says%
in open space and fair combat.' So steady•was, the firing,
and so prompt and tegular the movements of.Cplonet Mor-
rison's little corps, that, on their part, it resembled a_tield-
day, rather than a destructive battle. Then Opponents, al-
thongh three-fold in number, fell before the superior tat- .
tics,—not to say, as,
,in a similar case, all American writcr
would, superior bravery, of the British regulars." Vol. 1.
p. 332.

Our limits will not 'permit us to extract very
largely ; hut we shall endeavour to find room for
Mr. JAMES'S account t..f the battle of Stoney
Creek, fought at Midnight of the sth of.Jurie, 1813,
while the American Army, under General 'DILAR••
BORN, was in possession at Fort George, consi-
dered as the key of Upper Canada. In order to
Capture or destroy the Ismail British Force under
Major-General VINCiNT, eticamPed in the neigh-
bourhood of StoiiiyCreek, the American General
detached two Brigades at Infantry, some Cavalry,
and a strong detachment of Artillery. This force,
on the morning of the sth, encamped within sever .
miles of the British:

" Lieutenant-Colonel Harvey, at the head of a reconnoi-
tring party, consisting of thelh,tbt, companies of the Bth anti
49th regiments, advanced close. to the enemy's encampments,
and took an accurate view of his position. With a prompti-
tilde as honourable to his gallantry as his judgment, the Lieu-
tenant-Colonel suggested to Major-General Vincent,- in .the
strongest terms, a night-attack upon the American camp.
The ”bject was, to throw the enemy into confusion ; and, if
passible, compel him to abandon his intended attack upon the
British- army, It was certainly a desperate measure, but
13r.itish soldiers were to make the attempt, and hot to mali!:
it would bring down the same consequences as a failure,—
the capture or destruction of General Vincent's force.. • •

" Themight pf the sth vi June, as if propitious .to the-un-
4dertaJking, proved our of the darkest that had heen known,
for many years. Owing to that very circumstance, as sq,all a
number as could well be employed; would, it was judly con-
sidered, cu-operate with. the best!effuct. The men had been
kept finder arms,. a waitiugan attack from the. enemy, since
early in the afternoon ; and, at half-past eleven, as if n►ercly
to take, up sonic new position accessory to the defence of
the,post, .five -companies of the Bth, •and the whole of the
4Ffth Regiment, marched out of camp. The number was
.exactly • 704 &clucks; or, which is the same thing, rank and
tile.

. ,
" Let us now pause awhile, till we have fixed, as accu-
rately as may be, the number and force of the American
army. The only assistance we procure from the American
accounts, are the names of ale regiments and corps. These
consisted of the sth, 131 h, 14th, IGth, 22d, and 23d regiments
of infantry, divraed into two brigades, of, according to the
lowest returns in an American
,work, 1450 men each, We
find 800 artillery mentioned as part of the Fort George force;
admitting half only of that nu Is her, some of which were act-
ing as light troops, to have been detached on,thts occasion,
and adding the 250 dragoons under Lolonel Burn, we have,
for the force e.:camped at Stoney Creek, 3550 men ; but a
Boston Paper of June 24, 1813, states the number at 41900.
It becomes us, however, to be rather wider, than over the
mark; we will therefore. fix the amount, in round numbers,
at 3500 Americans ; just—without estimating the nine field-
pieces—five times the number of the British, who, in the so-
lemn stillness of the ❑ight, were fearlessly marching to at-
tack them.

" The advance of this determined band was led by Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Harvey ; and, at two o'clock, the British re-
gulars, with fixed bayonets, rushed into -the centre of the
American camp. The 4.9111 regiment, headed by ltiajor (ttow
Lieutenant-Colonel) Plendcrleath, charged some field-pieces;
and one of the artillerymeft was bayonetted in the very act
of discharging a gun. A body of Ameritan infantry, stationed
near the artillery,,and composed, it is said, of the light troops
and 25th regiment, fired a most destructive volley at the 49th;
but, instead of repeating what might have changed the fate
of the day, turned upon their heels and fled. On this occa-
sion Major Plenderleath's horse was shot under him, and him-
self severely wounded. Smjeaut Fraser of the 491 h, having
Captured Brigadier-General Winder, now brought him as ss
prisoner to Major Plenderleath. , The latter mounted ,the
Americo!' General's horse,- and lost that also, by a shot al-
most imdediately afterwards, Brigadier-General Chandler
was taken, much bruised, under one‘of the guns. All this
while the five companies of the Bth regiment, under Major
( now Lieutenaut-Colonel ) who so distinguished
himself at Fort. Georgeovers dealing destruction to the roe-
my's left dank, composed of the sth; 23d, and 16th regi-
ments.

• •
" The utmost confusion reigned in the American camp,and
the troops were flying in every direction to the surrounding
heights. The plan having fully succeeded, and it not being pru-
dent to let the Americans discover what a small force had so
put them to the rout, lest they should rally, and overwhelm
their few opponents, the. latter, just as day dawned, retired
to their cantonments; taliing will► them two Brigadier-Gene-
rals,, one Major, five Captains, one, Lieut enact, and 116 non-
commissioned etticers and privates, of the American army;
also two out of four of the captured. pieces of artillery, along
with nine horses to draw thein."—Vol. I. p.

After detailing a succession of minor defeats,
the consequence or this important blow, our. Au-
,thor bestows the following well-merited ericomium
upoil the gallant,Oilicer by whose iostrumenta-
lily die acl.►ieven►eut was effected :

" Thus was the whole interior of the Upper Canada pe-
ninsula rescued fron the ravages of an invading army, by a
mere !landfill of Miitisb troops, ordered from their own camp
at the hold suisS:estion, and Imi into the midst of the enemy's,
by the judgment and intrepidity of Lieutenant-Colonel Liar-
vey."—Vol. 1, p. 415..

It is to this Officer, to whom, with a discrimi-
nation that does him credit, our Author hai der&
cated his military work ; with a like discri-
mination, he, lord dedicated his naval work to.
Capiain Sir PHILIP BROKE, the gallant conqueror
ut the Chesapeake.' Saying of Mr. JAmes's mi-
litary, as a reviel.vcr has said of his naval work,
that " it affords a really uncommon instance of
part iotic Ilhour,and industry, as well as of know-
ledge_ on a professional subject attainell by an nu-
'professional tuati,"*--we conclude our brief no-
lice of the former, with strongly recommending.
both works to the perusal of every Englishman
who has the honour of his country at heart.

* Monthly arview fv: March IEII9, p. 315.