Proceedings of the Convention of the Soldiers of the War of 1812, in the State of New York (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Proceedings of the Convention of the Soldiers of the War of 1812, in the State of New York (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the Convention of the Soldiers of the War of 1812, in the State of New York The convention assembled in pursuance of the following generation orders of the General-in-Chief. Head-Quarters, Albany, Sept. 5, 1856. Veterans of the War of 1812, in the State of New York: The Legislature of this state having adjourned at its last session without passing the bill adjusting your military claims, unanimously reported by a committee of the senate, the undersigned, your General-in-Chief, deems it expedient, and hereby advises and directs, that you assemble in convention, in person or by delegates, at Schuylerville, in the county of Saratoga, New York, on the seventeenth day of October next, to adopt the necessary measures to procure the payment of your claims, and to commemorate, by a military parade, a glorious triumph of our Revolutionary Fathers - the capture at that place of Burgoyne's army of invasion, on the seventeenth of October, 1777. The stupendous consequences of this event, a brief statement will disclose. The British force consisted of 10, 000 men, which, in its organization and equipments, had no superior in any service. Co-operating with St. Leger, invading the western frontier, and with Sir Henry Clinton in the Highlands, its mission was to cut off the eastern colonies from the middle and southern, and to crush New York. She was assailed with fire and the sword, the tomahawk and scalping-knife, and Delenda est Carthago was stamped on every movement of her imperious foe. When the storm first burst upon her northern frontier, New York could oppose but 1000 men to its overwhelming force. Her subjugation appeared to be inevitable. It was the crisis of her fate; and let it be engraven on the memory of her citizens in all time to come, that on the verge of the abyss, overpowered and helpless, she was snatched from destruction by the fraternal love and unflinching courage of the people from her sister colonies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.