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Foreign News
June 7, 1814
The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
British forces under Rear Admiral Cockburn continue harassing civilians along the Chesapeake shores, pilfering farms, burning houses, and raiding even humble quarters, as they avoid direct military engagements.
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Petty Warfare.—The enemy continue to
harass the people on the shores of the
Chesapeake, carrying their depredations to
the very negro quarters. Nothing is too
ignoble for them to undertake. Neither
the parlour nor the kitchen, the granary nor
the henroost, is safe from the fangs of our
honorable assailants—all share alike the ten-
der mercies of the brutal and ferocious foe.
What a picture does " the world's last
hope—the fast-anchor'd isle." exhibit in her
warfare on our unprotected and defenceless
seaboard ? Too impotent and cowardly to
attack noble game, the savage Cockburn
contents himself with pilfering the farms
and burning the houses of our citizens, on
those exposed points which it is impossible,
from the extent of our seaboard, amply to
fortify and secure. Instead of attacking
our military posts and acquiring honor and
renown in honorable warfare, he steals at
the dead of night into the farm-yards and
up the little creeks which empty into our
spacious Bay, and there, if we may use the
expression, in the plenitude of his mighty
power, he luxuriates in infamy and mean-
ness. Such is the picture of the champions
of " the bulwark of our religion."—Peters-
burg Rep.
harass the people on the shores of the
Chesapeake, carrying their depredations to
the very negro quarters. Nothing is too
ignoble for them to undertake. Neither
the parlour nor the kitchen, the granary nor
the henroost, is safe from the fangs of our
honorable assailants—all share alike the ten-
der mercies of the brutal and ferocious foe.
What a picture does " the world's last
hope—the fast-anchor'd isle." exhibit in her
warfare on our unprotected and defenceless
seaboard ? Too impotent and cowardly to
attack noble game, the savage Cockburn
contents himself with pilfering the farms
and burning the houses of our citizens, on
those exposed points which it is impossible,
from the extent of our seaboard, amply to
fortify and secure. Instead of attacking
our military posts and acquiring honor and
renown in honorable warfare, he steals at
the dead of night into the farm-yards and
up the little creeks which empty into our
spacious Bay, and there, if we may use the
expression, in the plenitude of his mighty
power, he luxuriates in infamy and mean-
ness. Such is the picture of the champions
of " the bulwark of our religion."—Peters-
burg Rep.
What sub-type of article is it?
Naval Affairs
War Report
What keywords are associated?
Chesapeake Shores
British Harassment
Cockburn Raids
Petty Warfare
Farm Pilfering
House Burning
What entities or persons were involved?
Cockburn
Where did it happen?
Chesapeake
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Chesapeake
Key Persons
Cockburn
Event Details
The enemy continues to harass people on the shores of the Chesapeake, carrying depredations to negro quarters, pilfering farms, burning houses, and raiding parlours, kitchens, granaries, and henroosts. Cockburn avoids attacking military posts, instead stealing into farm-yards and creeks at night to commit infamy and meanness on exposed points of the seaboard.