[29] Annals of Congress, 1802, 1803, 255.
[30] Told the author by General C. F. Adams. See also “American Histor. Rev.,” April, 1913, p. 521.
[31] The British accounts were often so inaccurate and garbled, and in James’s “Naval History” so frequently glaringly untrue that only little dependence, in some instances, can be placed upon them. For a discussion of this phase, see Roosevelt’s “Naval War of 1812” passim. Part of this account is condensed from this latter.
[32] Roosevelt, 129.
[33] Cited by McMaster, “History of the United States,” IV, 901.
[34] Roosevelt, 178.
[35] Roosevelt, 187.
[36] Condensed from McMaster, IV, 33.
[37] “The Croker Papers,” I, 44.
[38] Roosevelt, 71, where a careful analysis of several pages is given to this subject.