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The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock

CHAPTER XI
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"Thus fell the brave, generous, and patriotic McCulloch, captain of the spies,"-- and in a foot note a few pages before--"Captain McCulloch, of the spies, scalped an Indian, whom he killed in the engagement," in Upper Canada! We quote from Brown's-American History, so it appears that at least one patriotic American could _scalp_ as well as the Indians!] [Footnote 62: Christie's Memoirs.] [Footnote 63: Christie's Memoirs.] [Footnote 64: The American historian, Brown, observes: "In the meanwhile, Michilimakinack surrendered to the British without resistance.

The indefatigable Brock, with a reinforcement of 400 regulars, arrived at Maiden; and several Indian tribes, before hesitating in the choice of sides, began to take their ground and array themselves under the British standard." Vol.

i, page 64 .-- 100 regulars!] [Footnote 65: Now Colonel Glegg, of Thursteston Hall, Cheshire.] [Footnote 66: His age was then about forty.] [Footnote 67: The American historian, Thomson, in his "Sketches of the War," says that General Hull surrendered "to a body of troops inferior in _quality_ as well as number!" and he adds: "When General Brock said that the force at his disposal authorized him to require the surrender, he must have had a very exalted opinion of the prowess of his own soldiers, or a very mistaken one of those who were commanded by the American general."] [Footnote 68: Including four brass field pieces, captured with General Burgoyne, at Saratoga, in 1777, and which were retaken by the Americans, at the battle of the Thames, in October, 1813.] [Footnote 69: Afterwards named the Detroit.] [Footnote 70: Appendix A, Section 2, No.1.

Jefferson's Correspondence.] [Footnote 71: Christie's Memoirs.] [Footnote 72: Doubtless an error for 1330, the entire British force.] [Footnote 73: There is a tradition in the editor's family, that one of its members removed from Guernsey to England early in the seventeenth century, and that a son of his, a clergyman, settled in the island of Barbadoes, whence he or his family emigrated to the then British provinces of North America, now the United States.] [Footnote 74: James' Military Occurrences.] [Footnote 75: For his revolutionary services, see Appendix A, Section 2, No.

2.] [Footnote 76: Howison's Upper Canada.


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