I refer to the case of the steamboat Caroline, which, while moored to the American shore, was entered in the darkness of night by a British expedition from Canada, set on fire, and pushed into the rapids to be precipitated over the cataract.
Sumner recounts the violent British attack on the American steamboat Caroline, illustrating the tensions between the U.S. and Britain.
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