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The Big Three Controversies: Tunics, Buttons, and Lace. I think that these are a worthwhile discussion and that all of us within the military recreation unit should explore the documentation available in order to render a final conclusion on these three matters. What is it about the tunics? I have o...

**Up The Glens: Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders 1783-1994. The Old Book Store, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 1995. Lieutenant Colonel Boss,CD. p. 15. "In March the recruits for the Glengarry Light Infantry Fencibles were attached for training and discipline to a detachment of the Britis...

**Up the Glens: Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders 1783-1994. The Old Book Store, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, 1995. Lt. Col. Boss,CD. p. 14. " At the beginning of the year 1807, Lt. Col. John Macdonell, Lieutenant of the County of Glengarry, placed before Col. Isaac Brock, Commandant of ...

**Capt. E, Cruikshank's account and Documentary History of the Campaign on the Niagara Frontier in 1814 - Part 1: Headquarters, Camp before Fort Erie, 2nd Sept., 1814 "Sir, Major General DeWattville arrived yesterday. The 6th Regiment marched into camp this morning, and has voluntarily undertak...

**from the proceedings of the Sixth Annual Niagara Peninsula History Conference, held at Brock University in April, 1984. The topic was: UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS in the NIAGARA PENINSULA. MEDICAL TREATMENTS – CIVILIAN "Efficacious therapy for serious disease was possible only infrequently in U...

**from the proceedings of the Sixth Annual Niagara Peninsula History Conference, held at Brock University in April, 1984. The topic was: UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS in the NIAGARA PENINSULA. DISEASES AND INJURIES “In 1793 when Elizabeth Russell noted that Niagara was particularly fatal to children she...

**From the Canadian Archives: Leading up to the American attack on the British defense lines at Fort Erie on September 17th, 1814, the British camps were literally pitched in water and some on swampy ground. The September weather saw the nights growing cold, the early morning's were frosty and the e...

** Drummond's account of Glengarries defending British Picket #4 at the Fort Erie position on Sept. 19, 1814 - Canadian Archives "I myself witnessed the good order and spirit with which the Glengarry Light Infantry under Lt. Col. Battersby pushed into the wood, and by their superior fire drove ...

**This is a letter from Lord Bathurst to Sir George Prevost which confirmed that Isaac Brock was to be Knighted by King George III through his son, the Prince Regent. Unfortunately, Brock didn't live to hear of his promotion. "I have had the honor of receiving your dispatch, dated the 26th Augu...

**This was a dispatch from Sir George Prevost (Lt. Gov. of the Canadas) to Lord Bathurst (one of His Majesty's principle Secretaries of State) concerning General Brock's conduct at Detroit and Detroit's surrender. It is dated at Montreal, 26th August, 1812. "It was under these circumstances, at...

"I left St. John on of the 3rd of September very grateful for much kind hospitality. The Gun boat, under the command of a provincial officer, was the slowest conveyance that could be imagined. We were four whole days getting up, against the Stream it is true, where our Can you had been paddled ...

"Sunday. Our Brigade on duty, we all off the roster. A severe skirmish from 1 p.m. till near 7, the enemy having made a desperate attempt to force our new battery which annoys at them greatly, a tremendous rain and thunderstorm broke over the combatants about 5 (PM) and tended to cool both part...

"The 104th (Regiment) ordered to do duty with the Engineer department. A deserter reported that 40 men were killed or wounded in the Fort (Erie) yesterday. On the reserve picquet last night, only a few shots fired. Some brought on ourselves by Basden, Brown and I telling stories in turn which m...

** An Act declaring War between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Dependencies thereof, and the United States of America, and their Territories. "Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that war be,...