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 1G2 SIR ISAAC BROCK.

event would have been brilliant and successful as it is now disas- trous and dishonorable. I have the honor to be,' &c.

Note. — The entire British force was ahout thirteen hundred and thirty men. (See page 11.) Colonel Cass speaks only of the American effective force ; the numerical force was ahout two thousand five hundred men. — Ed.

" REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF QUEENSTOWN." (Extracts.)

" Captain Wool discovered the British troops forming at Queens- town, and formed the troops under his command in line. General Brock was at the head of the British troops, and led them round about to the heights in the rear of the battery. Captain Wool detached one hundred and sixty men to meet the British ; this detachment was driven back, reinforced, and the whole driven to the brink of the precipice, forming the bank of the Niagara river, above Queenstown.

"At this moment some of the officers put a white handkerchief on a bayonet to hoist as a flag, with intention to surrender. Cap- tain Wool inquired the object. It was answered that the party were nearly without ammunition, and that it was useless to sacrifice the lives of brave men. Captain Wool tore off the flag, ordered the officers to rally the men, and bring them to the charge. The order was executed, but in some confusion. The boasted 49th could not stand the American bayonet. The British troops were routed, and Major-General Brock, in gallantly exerting himself to rally them, was killed. His aid, Colonel M'Donell, fell mortally wounded at the same time.

" The British being completely driven from the heights about ten o'clock, the line was reformed and flanking parties sent out."

No. 2.

" Revolutionary Services of General Hull, as taken from his Defence before the Court Martial, in March, 1814. — (Seepage 14.)

" For more than half a century I supported a character without reproach. My youth was devoted to the service of my country; I fought her battles in that war which achieved her liberty and independence, and which was ended before many of you, gentlemen, who are my judges, were born. If upon any occasion a man may speak of his own merits, it is at such a time as this ; and I hope I may be permitted to present to you, in very few words, a narration of my life, while I was engaged in scenes which were calculated to

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