Thursday, May 7, 2015

Admiral Cockburn On The Sassafras


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"It was on the 6th of May, a warm and beautiful morning, that Cockburn, with hundred men, in eighteen barges, went up the Sassafras."


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"So delighted was Cockburn with success in plundering and destroying unprotected towns that with characteristic swagger he declared he should not be satisfied until he had burned every building Baltimore."



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