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| View Of Frankfort, Kentucky |
"Commodore Barney's opinion of the Maryland militia was not a high one."
"At a dinner in his honor, at
Frankfort, Kentucky, he said: 'I had the good fortune to be in seventeen battles during the revolution, in all of which the star-spangled banner triumphed over the bloody cross, and in the late war I had the honor of being engaged in nine battles with the same glorious result, except in the last, in which I was unfortunate, though not in fault. If there had been with me 2,000 Kentuckians, instead of 7,000
Marylanders, Washington City would not have been sacked, nor or country disgraced.'"
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