[The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock by Ferdinand Brock Tupper]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock CHAPTER XIV 40/42
The text was: "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle."] [Footnote 100: James' Military Occurrences.] [Footnote 101: The mountain above Queenstown, where Major-General Brock was slain.] [Footnote 102: _Extract from D.G.O.for the Funeral_. The officers will wear crape on their left arms and on their sword knots, and all officers will, throughout the province, wear crape on their left arm for the space of one month. Captain Holcroft will be pleased to direct that minute guns be fired from the period of the bodies leaving government house until their arrival at the place of interment; and also, after the funeral service shall have been performed, three rounds of seven guns from the artillery.
By order.
THOMAS EVANS, B.M. ] [Footnote 103: Extracted from the York Gazette, October 24, 1812.] [Footnote 104: For brief extracts relative to Sir Isaac Brock from other authors, see Appendix A, Section 1, No.
5.] [Footnote 105: In height about six feet two inches.
Since the first sheets were printed, we have heard from a school-fellow of his, James Carey, Esq., that young Brock was the best boxer and swimmer in the school, and that he used to swim from the main land of Guernsey to Castle Cornet and back, a distance each way of nearly half a mile.
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