Many Indian villages lay from twelve to sixty miles from this place .-- _Brown's American History_.] [Footnote 92: "The Indians on this occasion" (the defence of Michilimakinack, in 1814,) "behaved with exemplary zeal and fidelity in our cause; and indeed their attachment throughout has been such as to make me blush for my country, in the dereliction of their interests in the negotiations at Ghent, after so many promises made them, and so fair a prospect at the commencement of these negotiations."-- _Letters of Veritas_.] [Footnote 93: See page 291.

We cannot discover a copy of Major-General Brock's letter of the 7th September, to Sir George Prevost, to which the latter officer refers in his letter of the 14th.] [Footnote 94: This communication, of which we have no particulars, is the more singular, as Colonel Van R---- commanded the advance of the American attacking party on the 13th of October, when Sir Isaac Brock lost his life.

Colonel Van R---- was severely wounded on that day.].