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The incident, however, which first lifted him upon a national pedestal belongs especially to the Mississippi Valley, and must receive our attention. The War of 1812, which we could not have avoided in the conditions then prevailing, had had for its theatre the high seas ; the Lakes, where Perry and Macdonough found their opportunity, with the border-land adjacent ; and Washington, which underwent a foray from an English fleet. Though the sons of the Mississippi Valley had played a part on the N...orthern fields, the soil of the basin was not touched by the war until at the (lJ^^^^cJ>^-^^>^l^S^ 1814] PAKENHAM'S FORCE 149 very end : then happened an event which dwarfed by its importance almost everything which had gone before, the battle of New Orleans. England has rarely sent out such an expedition as that which sailed in 1814 from the south of Ireland to seize the mouth of the Mississippi. Fifty of the best ships set sail, bearing nearly twenty thousand fighting men, soldiers and sailors, under Sir Edward Pakenham, brother-in-law of Welling- ton.
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