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A LONESOME GENERAL

1838 and 1839 we had another serious complication with Great Britain along the Niagara frontier which seemed to foreshadow a third great war. There were armed invasions of British territory by Americans; an expedition crossed from Canada to our side, killed several persons, set the steamer Caroline on fire, and drifted her over the falls. 200,000 Americans banded themselves [107]