5. Niagara Frontier: FRENCHMAN'S CREEK, November 28, 1812 6. Montreal Frontier: ST. REGIS, October 23 and November 23, 667 9. SIGNALS FOR HIS MAJESTY'S SQUADRON From original in the possession of H. A. Dean, Esq., 10. PORTRAIT OF LIEUT.-COLONEL CHARLES From an engraving by A. B. Durand after a painting II. FACSIMILE OF A CONFIDENTIAL LETTER LIST OF MAPS All the Maps are in the Pocket at the end of Vol. I. 1. THE SEAT OF WAR. 2. THE DETROIT FRONTIER. 3. THE NIAGARA PENINSULA. 4. QUEENSTON. 5. LUNDY'S LANE. 6. CHRYSTLER'S FARM. 7. CHÂTEAUGUAY. 8. PLATTSBURG. PREFACE HERE are good grounds for believing that nearly all the really important British documents concerned TH with the Canadian part of the War of 1812 have now been harvested into the Dominion Archives at Ottawa, either in the originals or in faithful copies, photographic and manuscript; that the rest are accessible elsewhere; and that only stray gleanings remain unknown. To make doubly sure of this the publication of these volumes was postponed for two years, during which many additional efforts were made to elicit further information from every likely or possible source. The Champlain Society also took the precaution of sending the Editor on a tour of some three thousand miles so that he might personally examine the principal scenes of action. At last, when the multitudinous parts. seemed to constitute a satisfactory whole, the present selection was carefully made in order to give a true idea of the complete evidence on this particular branch of the subject. Finality is naturally impossible in any question of research. But the present approach to it seems to be close enough for practical use; and there seems to be no reason to suppose that a fourth, or supplementary, volume would make a further advance of any real consequence. Nothing could be easier than to compile one or more additional volumes out of the many minor documents which are already represented here by suitable specimens. But the only justification for such additions would be a series of finds" that would materially change the evidence; and "finds" like this seem to be almost beyond reasonable expectation. |