Excerpt from A Pictorial History of the Wars of the United States: Comprising a Complete History of All the Wars of the Country, From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time In recording the great events which mark our national progress, care has been exercised to intersperse suitable bio graphical sketches of the men who have acted a noble part in the great drama; and the varied and romantic fortunes that have attended them, together with the vicissitudes of our patriot armies, and the sudden rise of the nation to one of the first powers of the earth, cannot fail to impress the reader with the distinguished marks of Divine favor that have ever attended the defenders of our liberty. It is only within a recent period that the warlike resources and power of the United States have been justly appreciated. 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.