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Subject: [IASCOTT] 1910-(real one) Battle of Credit of Island
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 11:13:41 EDT

Sorry about the last post. I am not paying attention. Too many notes laying
around.

Chapter 5 cont.

BATTLE OF CREDIT ISLAND.

August 21st the British were informed by the Fox Indians that another
expedition, larger than the preceding ones, had left St. Louis for the upper
river.  Six days later, Captain Anderson sent Lieutenant Duncan Graham to
meet this new force with a command of thirty British soldiers, a brass
three-pounder and two swivels, with instructions to harass the Americans and
if possible compel a return to St. Louis.  Thus was brought about an
engagement within the corporate limits of the city of Davenport and known as
the battle of Credit Island.  The unwieldly nature of the keel boats, the
inadequate means of propulsion or maneuver, brought disaster to the American
arms.  These were not battle ships but rather transports and of the most
primitive sort.  The issue of the conflict brought no reproach to the officer
in command, Major Taylor, later the hero of the Mexican war and president of
the United States.

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