[Rarebooks] fa: 1813-14 Gentleman’s Magazine: WAR OF 1812 Battle of River Raisin & Chippewa TECUMSEH &c.

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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume LXXXIII [83]. Part the First. [WITH:] Volume LXXXIV [84]. Part the First [and] Part the Second. London: Printed by Nichols, Son, and Bentley...And sold by J. Harris, 1813-14. Together, three volumes, comprising the months January-June, 1813, and January-December, 1814, uniformly bound in early/period calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; iv, 700 pp.; iv, 732 pp.; iv, 708 pp.; with numerous tables, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, and 41 copper-engraved plates, two of which are folding (complete).

With plenty of vivid, contemporary coverage of the WAR OF 1812, including:
	- The full text (over 6 1/2 double-column pages) of the Prince Regent's Declaration against the United States of America
	- Details of the BATTLES OF FRENCHMAN'S CREEK and THE RIVER RAISIN ("an obstinate contest ensued, but victory at length declared in our favour")
	- The British commander Col. Henry Procter's own account of the Battle of the RIVER RAISIN/FRENCHTOWN ("...part of [the enemy's] force, in attempting to retreat... were, I believe, all, or with very few exceptions, killed by the Indians. Brig.-gen. Winchester was taken in the pursuit by the Wyandot Chief Roundhead, who afterwards surrendered him to me... The Indian warriors fought with their usual bravery...")
	- Dispatches from British commander in chief Sir George Prevost, stationed on the "Niagara Frontier" ("I am happy to be able to acquaint your Lordship... that the Enemy has been disappointed in an attempt to create distrust and disaffection amongst our Indian allies, by a deputation of chiefs sent by them for that purpose...")("I ordered a general demonstration to be made on Fort George...but no provocation could induce the American army to leave their places of shelter...")
	- A letter by Prevost forwarding Procter's preliminary account of the disastrous (for the British) BATTLE OF THE THAMES (MORAVIANTOWN) which makes mention of TECUMSEH: "[Procter] was attacked by so overwhelming a force, under Major.-gen. [William Henry] Harrison, that the small numbers he had with him... were unable to withstand it... Tecumseh, at the head of 1200 warriors, accompanied our little army on its retreat from Sandwich; and the Prophet [Tenskwatawa], as well as his brother Tecumseh, were of the most essential service, in arresting the further progress of the Americans..."
	- General Phineas Riall's official report of the BATTLE OF CHIPPAWA (or Chippewa)
	- A detailed account, including Gen. Gordon Drummond's official report, of the attack on FORT ERIE
	- Plus accounts of:  the loss of H.M. frigate Java to the U.S. frigate Constitution; the taking of Ft. George; the burning of Newark; Prevost's proclamation of "retaliation on the Americans for their inhuman mode of warfare," whereby he orders "the villages of Lewiston, Black Rock, and Buffalo to be burned…"; the British attack on Fort Niagara; the trial of Gen. William Hull, on charges of "Treason and Cowardice," for the surrender of Detroit; the Battle of Lundy's Lane, etc.
	- And finally, in the December 1814 issue, a brief announcement, all caps and bold-faced, of the late-breaking news: "that a treaty of peace was signed between his Majesty and the United States of America, by the respective plenipotentiaries at that place, on the 24th inst."
	- And much more. 

Other features of note include:
	- Coverage of the NAPOLEONIC WARS, and their conclusion (or so the British thought) in the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
	- A lengthy, two-part essay: Hints on SLAVE LABOUR AND WEST-INDIA Cultivation, by Captain [William] Layman; plus The Humble Addresses of the House of Commons to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, on the AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, with His Royal Highness's Answers; etc.
	- Memorandum with a view to assisting any single Gentleman, or Party of three or four, who wish to travel with convenience and satisfaction from Bombay to England, by way of Bussora (in two parts).
	- PLATES of: the Roman Wall at Wroxeter; Harlech Castle; Lindisfarn Church; the Cathedral at Rouen; the Prison at Stapleton near Bristol; Ground-plans of the outer walls of the most celebrated Buildings in Europe; the Duke's Theatre formerly at Dorset-gardens; Whittington Castle; the late Edmund Burke's House near Beaconsfield; a Painted Window, by Eggington, in Stationers' Hall; the Ruins of Winchester Palace; the Church at Kirkby Malory; etc., etc.
	- Plus monthly meteorological diaries, parliamentary proceedings, poetry, reviews and extracts of books recently published, obituaries, births, marriages, accounts of Foreign and Domestic Affairs; and much, much more.