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8774. VAN RENSSELAER (General S.), Failure of.—

Will not Van Rensselaer be
broke for cowardice and incapacity? To advance
such a body of men across a river without
securing boats to bring them off in case of disaster,
has cost us seven hundred men; and to
have taken no part himself in such an action,
and against such a general could be nothing
but cowardice.—
To President Madison. Ford ed., ix, 370.
(M. Nov. 1812)