Letter of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, 1814.

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Letter of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, 1814.

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Photocopy and transcript of a letter written by Cochrane from Patuxent River, Chesapeake Bay, to William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, giving an account of the results of the British attack on Washington, D.C.: U.S. flotilla destroyed, U.S. Army defeated, and the Capitol, President's house, and naval dockyard burned.

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