“The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us experience for the attack of Halifax the next, and the final expulsion of England from the American continent.”

Statement during an early stage of the War of 1812, in a letter to William Duane (4 August 1812)
1810s

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