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SANDY CREEK

\sˈandi kɹˈiːk], \sˈandi kɹˈiːk], \s_ˈa_n_d_i k_ɹ_ˈiː_k]\

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1894 - Dictionary of United States history

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An American flotilla with supplies for the fleet at Sackett's Harbor was attacked here May 30, 1814, by two gunboats, but defeated and captured them. The British lost sixty-eight killed and wounded and 170 prisoners.

1894 - Dictionary of United States history
By John Franklin Jameson

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