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Wow, Marcelo, sounds like you're having a real melt down at your place !! lol If there was anyway I could send you all of our snow,.....I would, trust me!! lol Hopefully we'll only have 6 more weeks of it and then the birds will come back and everything will begin to grow again and the air will warm...

Nicely said Marcelo! Where were you a year and a half ago when I was attempting to answer the "musket" question.....? lol The original post was never finished and you just brought it to my attention that I meant to go back to it and add to it.... Thanks for your post. I'm looking forward t...

Just thought I'd pick on this last name first.... William Anderson - deserted February 25, 1813 (hmm, I wonder what happened there? :^) Edward Anderson - discharged April 24, 1815 Owen Anderson - discharged May 20, 1815 John Anderson - discharged May 20, 1815 Thomas Anderson - discharged May 20, 181...

"7 January 2009 Installed a replacement image gallery"
Very cool Bill.
We'll have to go on a picture bender and we'll start at Ogdensburgh in a few weeks gathering stills so that you can add them to it.

Cheers,
Pud

It's always nice to see the occasional reference to weather and how it interfered with, or changed, the process of the war. This next reference, from 196 years ago, tells of freezing temperatures equivalent to -25°C below zero today. Here in the Kawartha's we experienced that very temperature just ...

Thanks Bill. What's amazing for me is that I never knew these details about MacDougal before finding this article and reading it just a few days ago,...and - I founded the GLIF reenactment unit of all units - I was a Customs agent and at the port of Queenston too! - And, for 12.5 years I was an hono...

Source: Carnochan, Janet. (1925). Niagara historical society (reprint) No. 23: Fort Niagara---Col. D. McDougal. Niagara-On-The-Lake: Advance Print. "Daniel MacDougal, (the name was really Donuil) belonged to a family noted in the history of Scotland, descended from the MacDougal's of Lorne, men...

MG Brown discloses his intensions of the previous day to the usa Secretary of War: Source: THE DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE CAMPAIGN ON THE NIAGARA FRONTIER IN 1814. Lundy's Lane Historical Society, Welland: The Tribune Office. Captain E. Cruikshank. [Year Unknown]. Pp.86-87. " Major-General Brow...

Throughout the campaign in Niagara during 1814, the Glengarry Light Infantry were often used as scouts. Consider the example below from 194 years ago today, just a few days before the great Battle of Lundy's Lane. The example shown below also contributes to the idea that the Glengarries and the Nati...

Wow!!

Now those wee videos are friggin awesome!! Bravo to all involved and,...I love the music in video #1.

Cheers,
Pud

The Good Soldier: The Story of Isaac Brock. Toronto: Macmillan, 1964. D.J. Goodspeed.

*reprint was in 1967.

An oldie, but goodie.:^)

Often when we think of the war years of 1812 through 1814 we think of the adults; the men, the women; the soldiers and the campfollowers, but what of the children? I thought I would briefly explore "childhood" for you from a documentary point of view. The following information comes to us ...

Bill and Dave, Do you remember when we were at the Willowbank event this past summer and you guys showed me the cemetery that you had found on the other side of the creek? Well, here's a picture of it for you from about 30 years ago. http://glengarrylightinfantry.ca/images/servos.jpg It's called the...

Source: United Empire Loyalists in the Niagara Peninsula. St. Catharines, Ontario, Brock University, 1984. Sixth Annual Niagara Peninsula History Conference. P.p. 23-25. "Three men identified as "Heads of families" have their names annotated "Rangers", which may mean that th...

“Sweety Pies” was the term given to these treats by maritime soldiers during the war years of the early nineteenth century. It was really just a sweet pastry and was often prepared for the gentry/officers of the regiments and militias. Source: Halifax Citadel fortress cook (name: unknown). July,...