Memoir of Alexander Macomb the Major General Commanding the Army of the United
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They, therefore, with few exceptions, treated our officers, who fell into their hands, with no kind of respect ; and, 1C2 MEMOIR OF when speaking of the Government, held language ill comporting with the character of men professing to be long to a high-minded nation. But the progress, which our troops were daily making in discipline and know ledge of warfare, began to teach them better lessons. After the affair of Pittsburgh, they manifested a higher respect than they were wont to do. The troops..., how ever, who had served on the Continent of Europe under that Great Captain Wellington, had never evinced any such illiberality. The war, after their arrival, took a more militaire complexion. To relieve the inhabitants residing near the line, marked by the 45th degree of north latitude, constituting the frontier intrusted to General Macomb, from the vexations and sufferings to which they were exposed under the former system pur sued by the British Commanders, an arrangement was entered into, between him and General Sir Thomas Brisbane, to allow the inhabitants, on either side, an uninterrupted pursuit of their peaceful occupations, to cross the lines, and, in fact, to enjoy ail the privileges of neutrals, so long as they remained non-combatant.
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