A School History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1890 With a Short I
A School History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1890 With a Short I
Edward a Edward Austin Johnson
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The enemy is near. His sails cover the lakes ; but the brave are united, and if he finds us contending among ourselves, it will be for the prize of valor, and fame, its noblest reward. " The Battle of New Orleans, we will remember, ended in defeat for the British. Over two thousand 76 A SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE were lost to the British, while the American loss was seven killed and six wounded. There were over four hundred Negroes in this battle, and they occupied " no mean place and did no mean se...rvice. " The British had a battalion of Negroes from the Island of San Domingo in this battle. The idea of fortifying the city with cotton is said to have been the suggestion of a slave who was a native African, and learned this mode of defence from the Arabs. Mr. D. Lee Child, in a letter to a friend, states that the famous cotton breast-works, recognized the world over as a stroke of genius on the part of Gen. Jackson, was the suggestion of a colored man, a native African. He gives some data from a Por tuguese manuscript to prove that this mode of de fence is in practice among the native Africans, who thus defend their wives and children against the Arabs.
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