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 BROCK CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

frith the conditions, which were Immediately con* firmed bj General Brock, whereby Fort Detroit with 59,700 square miles "f American territory — the wh<»ic State of Michigan wai surrendered. 2,500 officers and men became prisoners of war, and l!.."<»ii stand of ;inns, thirty-three pieces of cannon, the Adams brig-of-war, and and

munitions of war to the value <>f £40,000, all so sorely needed by the Canadian mi lit la, were handed over i" the British < Commander.

Gh neral Brock in his despatch i«» the Some Gov- ernment announcing the capture of Detroit, und which w;is published In s (Gazette Extraordinary in London <»n the 6th October, with characteristic generosity bore testimony t«» the services of his friend in the following terms: u In the attainment <»r this Lmportanl ]»<»int gentlemen of the first char- acter and Influence Bhowed an example highly creditable t<> them, and I cannot on ihis occasion avoid mentioning the essentia] assistance I derived from John Hacdonell, Esquire, His Majesty's Attorney-General, who from the beginning of the war bas honoured me with bis services as my Pro-

Brock's biographer and nephew, Mr. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, graphically tells the end of them both, almost apon the spot upon which we now stand. After mention <»f the hasty gallop from Port George, at dawn <»n the L3th October, when it was found that the Americans had during tin- night passed over the Niagara River and succeeded in gaining the crest of the heights in rear "f the battery, and Brock's desperate effort t" dislodge them, he goes on to say: "The Americans now opened s heavy fire <>f musketry, and. conspicuous from his dress, ids height, and the enthusiasm with which he animated ids little band, the British com- mander was soon singled out, and he fell about an hour after his arrival, the fatal bullet entering his right breast and passing through bis left side.

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