[Footnote 122:  Pictorial History of England.]

[Footnote 123:  Extract from the Pictorial History of England.]

[Footnote 124:  “Sir George Prevost was beyond all doubt the immediate commander of this expedition.  But he found it convenient not to appear in that character; and the only detail of operations was in the shape of a dispatch from his adjutant-general to himself, obligingly communicating what was already sufficiently known to him.  By this ingenious device, he in some measure averted the exposure of miscarriage from himself, and generously yielded his laurels, such as they were, to his grateful and submissive follower.”—­Quarterly Review.]

[Footnote 125:  “The reader now sees the fatal consequences; first, of not having, in the autumn of 1812, destroyed the two or three schooners which were equipping at Buffaloe by Lieutenant Elliott; secondly, of not having, in the spring of 1813, secured the possession of Sackett’s Harbour; thirdly, of not having, in the summer of the same year, captured or destroyed the whole American fleet, as it lay, unmanned, in Presqu’ile Harbour.”—­James’ Military Occurrences.]

[Footnote 126:  The present Major-General Sir John Harvey, K.C.B.]

[Footnote 127:  While the Americans retained Fort George, the graves of Sir Isaac Brock and Lieut.-Colonel M’Donell, in the cavalier bastion there, remained sacred, and were also respected.]

[Footnote 128:  It strikes us as singular that Captain Roberts was not promoted to at least a brevet majority for the capture of this important post, although he had an overwhelming force, and took it without resistance.  Was this promotion withheld because the capture was effected contrary to Sir George Prevost’s orders?]

[Footnote 129:  “The land, in the centre of this island, is high, and its form somewhat resembles that of a turtle’s back.  Mackinac, or Mickinac, signifies a turtle, and michi (mishi), or missi, signifies great, as it does also, several, or many.  The common interpretation of the word Michilimakinac, is the Great Turtle.”—­Henry’s Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories, between the years 1760 and 1776.]

[Footnote 130:  James’ Military Occurrences.]

[Footnote 131:  Pictorial History of England.]

[Footnote 132:  John Grahame, of Claverhouse, was mortally wounded at the pass of Killicrankie, in 1689, and died the next day.  With him expired the cause of James the Second in Scotland, as, although the war languished in the highlands for two years after, nothing of importance occurred.  When William was urged to send more troops into Scotland, he replied:  “It is unnecessary, the war has ended with Dundee’s life.”]