Select British Documents of the Canadian War of 1812, 13. köideChamplain Society, 1920 - 551 pages |
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... expected to prove a good stroke of policy . At first it seemed to be so . He was comparatively young , only forty - four . His manners were suavely diplomatic , in marked contrast to those of his immediate predecessor , the abrupt ...
... expected to prove a good stroke of policy . At first it seemed to be so . He was comparatively young , only forty - four . His manners were suavely diplomatic , in marked contrast to those of his immediate predecessor , the abrupt ...
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... expected to be attacked , though they did not know whether the attack was to be a feint or not . Major Evans had noted preparations over at Lewiston . He had gone there under a flag of truce at the same time that Solomon van Rensselaer ...
... expected to be attacked , though they did not know whether the attack was to be a feint or not . Major Evans had noted preparations over at Lewiston . He had gone there under a flag of truce at the same time that Solomon van Rensselaer ...
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... expected to fight a new battle , against a stronger enemy , whose guns might sink them on the way over , whose redcoats might charge them with the bayonet on landing , and whose Indians were evidently closing in on the flanks , through ...
... expected to fight a new battle , against a stronger enemy , whose guns might sink them on the way over , whose redcoats might charge them with the bayonet on landing , and whose Indians were evidently closing in on the flanks , through ...
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... expected an attack the night before . The British centre was composed of regulars . The militia were on their immediate flanks , the Indians on the extreme flanks . The fighting was very heavy in the centre , where the Americans had ...
... expected an attack the night before . The British centre was composed of regulars . The militia were on their immediate flanks , the Indians on the extreme flanks . The fighting was very heavy in the centre , where the Americans had ...
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... expected to drive in all the little British outposts on his way to the St. Lawrence . De Salaberry , however , had determined to dispute his advance by taking up a strong position near La Fourche , where several tributary creeks of the ...
... expected to drive in all the little British outposts on his way to the St. Lawrence . De Salaberry , however , had determined to dispute his advance by taking up a strong position near La Fourche , where several tributary creeks of the ...
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action advance aforesaid American Amherstburg Archives Arms Army Bills arrived Artillery attack August Battalion battery battle Baynes boats Brigade British Canadian Capt Captain Châteauguay Chippawa Colonel command Corps Creek defence Detachment Detroit effect Embodied Militia enemy Excellency Excellency's fighting fire flank companies force Fort Amherstburg Fort Erie Fort George Fort Niagara French-Canadian frontier Garrison Government Governor guns Henry Procter honor Hull Humble Servant immediately Indians Isaac Brock Island July Kingston Lake Erie Lake Ontario land letter Lieut Lieutenant Lower Canada Macdonell Majesty Majesty's Major General Brock ment Michillimackinac miles military Montreal morning Niagara o'clock Officers party person prisoners Proclamation Procter Province quarter Quebec Queenston received Regiment Regt regulars reinforcements Rensselaer River Royal Sackett's Harbour Salaberry Sandwich Select Embodied Militia sent Sheaffe side Solomon van Rensselaer soon surrender taken took troops United Upper Canada vessels wounded York
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