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terstroke had been attended with such entire success that he was able 
to disband at once two-thirds of the local militia and return the entire 
force withdrawn from the Niagara frontier to meet the impending 
attack in that quarter. On the very day that Detroit surrendered, 
Henry Clay, the acknowledged leader of the war party in Congress, 
addressed a second army of volunteers at Georgetown, Kentucky, pre- 
dicting the fall of Malden and a speedy conquest of Upper .Canada by 
General Hull. 
