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FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 95:  James’ Military Occurrences.]

[Footnote 96:  The present Colonel James Dennis, lieut.-colonel 3d foot:  an officer of above forty-eight years service, and several times wounded.]

[Footnote 97:  See Captain Wool’s letter, Appendix A, Section 2, No. 3.]

[Footnote 98:  Major-General Brock, soon after his arrival at Queenstown, sent orders for the battering from Fort George of the American fort Niagara, which was done with so much effect that the garrison was forced to abandon it.]

[Footnote 99:  Death and Victory:  a sermon under this title was preached by the Rev. William Smart, at Brockville, Elizabethtown, November 15, on the death of Major-General Brock, and published at the request of the officers stationed at that post and of the gentlemen of the village.  The text was:  “How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle.”]

[Footnote 100:  James’ Military Occurrences.]

[Footnote 101:  The mountain above Queenstown, where Major-General Brock was slain.]

[Footnote 102:  Extract from D.G.O. for the Funeral. 
    The officers will wear crape on their left arms and on their
    sword knots, and all officers will, throughout the province,
    wear crape on their left arm for the space of one month.

    Captain Holcroft will be pleased to direct that minute guns be
    fired from the period of the bodies leaving government house
    until their arrival at the place of interment; and also, after
    the funeral service shall have been performed, three rounds of
    seven guns from the artillery.  By order.  THOMAS EVANS, B.M.
]

[Footnote 103:  Extracted from the York Gazette, October 24, 1812.]

[Footnote 104:  For brief extracts relative to Sir Isaac Brock from other authors, see Appendix A, Section 1, No. 5.]

[Footnote 105:  In height about six feet two inches.  Since the first sheets were printed, we have heard from a school-fellow of his, James Carey, Esq., that young Brock was the best boxer and swimmer in the school, and that he used to swim from the main land of Guernsey to Castle Cornet and back, a distance each way of nearly half a mile.  This feat is the more difficult, from the strong tides which run between the passage.]

[Footnote 106:  “On arriving before Fort Detroit, a characteristic trait of his courage took place, when, within range of the guns of that fort, and in front of his heroic and devoted band of militiamen and regulars, his attention was drawn by Colonel Nichol to the dangerous nature of the expedition, and to the wish of his gallant comrades in arms that he would not go to the front, and endanger a life they could not spare—­to these suggestions he replied:  ’I will never desire the humblest individual to go where I cannot lead.’”—­Toronto Herald, June 15, 1843.]