... On the sea the capture of the Chesapeake by the Shannon salved the pride of England. The last year of the war was also a year of varying fortunes. In the far West a small body of Canadians and ... fellow trader, Mackay, and six Canadian voyageurs, he pushed up the Peace and the Parsnip, passed by way of the Fraser and the Blackwater to the Bella Coola, and thence to the Pacific, the first ... and Adams. To face these the United States had sent John Quincy Adams, Albert Gallatin, Henry Clay, James Bayard, and Jonathan Russell, as able and astute a group of players for great stakes...