Excerpt from Kent's Part in the War, 1812-1814: The Battle of Caulk's Field The war had been in progress nearly two years and neither country had been able to force its conclusion. Wearying of the rather desultory fighting at last Great Britain determined to make a final effort to terminate the struggle with the United States. In August, 1814, she directed her war vessels to again enter the Chesapeake Bay. The Annual Register of 1814, a British publication, says: The operations of the British Arm aments on the coast of the southern American States had hitherto been on a small scale and calculated rather to alarm and irritate than to produce any considerable effect, but in this year the resolution was taken of striking some important blow in these quarters. Tactics in that war were similar to those of earlier date and Eng land's policy of burning the defenceless shore towns and villages, as well as the pil 1aging of farms that laid along the water courses, was expected by the American citizens and soldiers at that time. 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.