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"Evidently ashamed of the barbarism committed by British hands, Vice-Admiral Cochrane attempted to palliate it by a pitiful trick. After the destruction of the capital, and the invaders were safely back on their vessels in the Patuxent, Cochrane wrote a letter to Secretary Monroe, in which he said to him, 'Having been called upon by the Governor-General of the Canadas to aid him in carrying into effect measures of retaliation against the inhabitants of the United States for the wanton destruction committed by their army in Upper Canada, it has become imperiously my duty, conformably with the Governor-General's application, to issue to the naval force under. | Commodore Barney s Young Spies by James Otis 1 Commodore Barney s Young Spies by James Otis The Project Gutenberg EBook of Commodore Barney s Young Spies by James Otis This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Commodore Barney s Young Spies A Boy s Story of the Burning of the City of Washington Author James Otis Illustrator J. Watson Davis Release Date June 4 2010 EBook 32678 Commodore Barney s Young Spies by James Otis 2 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMMODORE BARNEY S YOUNG SPIES Produced by David Edwards Odessa Paige Turner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive Transcriber s Notes Obvious errors have been corrected. Italic text in the original has been enclosed by underscore and bold text by . Illustration Darius cried out in my ear but I heard him not I was insane with the scene of carnage. Page 272. COMMODORE BARNEY S YOUNG SPIES A Boy s Story of the Burning of the City of Washington By JAMES OTIS Author of Across the Delaware At the Siege of Havana Life of John Paul Jones With Warren at Bunker Hill etc. etc. Illustration With six page illustrations By J. WATSON DAVIS A. L. BURT COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Copyright 1907 By A. L. BURT COMPANY COMMODORE BARNEY S YOUNG SPIES CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE 3 CHAPTER PAGE I. Captain Joshua Barney 1 II. At Benedict 20 III. Elias Macomber 39 IV. A Lively Tussle 58 V. With the Fleet 77 VI. Feeding the Enemy 96 VII. An Old Acquaintance 115 VIII. The Deserter 133 IX. An Unexpected Meeting 151 X. A Change of Base 169 XI. The British Forces 188 XII. Suspense 207 XIII. Burning the Vessels 226 XIV. At Washington 245 XV. Bladensburg 263 XVI. In Hiding 282