[106] Both these names are used, confusingly, by Armstrong. Madrid was the township, Hamilton a village on the St. Lawrence, fifteen to twenty miles below the present Ogdensburg.
[107] American State Papers, Military Affairs, vol. i. p. 464. Armstrong's italics.
[108] Ante, p. 60.
[109] Chauncey's report, Oct. 1, 1813, Niles' Register, vol. v. p. 134. The extract has been verified from the original in the Captains' Letters. The report of Sir James Yeo (British Records Office) agrees substantially with Chauncey's accounts of the movements, but adds that upon the fall of the "Wolfe's" topmasts the "Pike" immediately took a distance out of carronade range, whence her long 24's would tell. "I can assure you, Sir, that the great advantage the enemy have over us from their long 24-pounders almost precludes the possibility of success, unless we can force them to close action, which they have ever avoided with the most studied circumspection."
[110] Chauncey to Navy Department, Dec. 17, 1813. Captains' Letters.
[111] Armstrong, Oct. 5, 1813. American State Papers, Military Affairs, vol. i. p. 470.
[112] Ibid., p. 471.
[113] Armstrong, Oct. 20, 1813. American State Papers, Military Affairs, vol. i. p. 473.
[114] Scott's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 106. In consequence, though Scott personally succeeded in joining the movement from which so much was expected, this considerable number of regulars were withdrawn from it. They ultimately reached Sackett's, forming the nucleus of a garrison.
[115] Captains' Letters, Oct. 30, 1813.