garrison was about to abandon Fort George and preparing to blow up the works.  Two companies were dispatched toward the fort, but on nearing it one of the magazines exploded, and a piece of timber striking Colonel Scott, threw him from his horse, resulting in a broken collar bone.  Recovering himself, he caused the gate to be forced, entered the fort, and with his own hands pulled down the British flag.  The fort had suffered great damage from the artillery fire directed against it from the opposite shore.  The enemy were pursued for five miles, when an order from General Morgan Lewis recalled Scott when he was in the midst of the stragglers from the British forces.  The American loss was seventeen killed and forty-five wounded, and that of the British ninety killed, one hundred and sixty wounded, and over one hundred prisoners.

It will be remembered that about a year before Colonel Scott was for a short time a prisoner at Queenstown.  Dining one evening with General Sheaffe and several other British officers, one of them asked him if he had ever seen the falls of Niagara.  He replied, “Yes, from the American side.”  To this the officer replied, “You must have the glory of a successful fight before you can view the cataract in all its grandeur.”  Scott replied, “If it be your purpose to insult me, sir, honor should have prompted you first to return my sword.”  General Sheaffe rebuked the officer, and the matter ended.

This same colonel was severely wounded and captured at Fort George.  Colonel Scott showed him every attention and had his wants promptly supplied.  On visiting him one day the British officer said to him:  “I have long owed you an apology, sir.  You have overwhelmed me with kindness.  You now, sir, at your leisure, can view the falls in all their glory.”

Within two days, after the capture of Fort George a body of some nine hundred British troops under command of Sir George Prevost, Governor General of Canada, landed at Sackett’s Harbor, New York, for the purpose of destroying the stores and a vessel there on the stocks.  General Jacob Brown, who subsequently came to the command of the United States army, hastily gathered a body of militia, attacked and drove the enemy back to their vessels, and saved the stores.  On June 6th, General Winder, with about eight hundred men, had been re-enforced at Stoney Creek by a small force under General Chandler.  They were in pursuit of the British forces who had escaped from Fort George under command of General Vincent.  He determined not to await the attack of the Americans, but to attack himself.  He moved out at night and attacked the center of the American line, which he succeeded in breaking, and captured both Generals Winder and Chandler; but the enemy was at last driven back, and a council of war decided on a retreat.  Coming close on this disaster, Colonel Charles G. Boerstler, with a command of six hundred men, had been sent forward to capture the Stone House, seventeen miles from Fort