id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 25912 Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Volume 2 .txt text/plain 156847 8067 66 British capture the American naval schooners "Tigress" and expected in the spring, the United States ships of war that reached Captain Barclay, who commanded the British squadron in Perry's action. equal to it." The new American ship, the "General Pike," possessed year later, to goad the British naval commander on Lake Champlain into blockaders was usually a ship of the line, the American vessels very Spanish sea-islands,--reported the United States naval officer at St. Mary's towards the end of the war, "is immense. feared a British ship of war more than it did an enemy of equal force. [220] Data concerning American vessels captured by British ships have of such, the lakes must be made British waters, to which the American British ship was to be enabled to sail for the attack on the American official reports, as well British as American, concerning the New British to American merchant vessels, i. ./cache/25912.txt ./txt/25912.txt