The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.: Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic TupperBrock, Isaac, Sir
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The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.: Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper
[Footnote 99: Death and Victory: a sermon under this title was preached
by the Rev. William Smart, at Brockville, Elizabethtown, November 15, on
the death of Major-General Brock, and published at the request of the
officers stationed at that post and of the gentlemen of the village. 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. This
feat is the more difficult, from the strong tides which run between the
passage.]
[Footnote 106: "On arriving before Fort Detroit, a characteristic trait
of his courage took place, when, within range of the guns of that fort,
and in front of his heroic and devoted band of militiamen and regulars,
his attention was drawn by Colonel Nichol to the dangerous nature of the
expedition, and to the wish of his gallant comrades in arms that he
would not go to the front, and endanger a life they could not spare--to
these suggestions he replied: 'I will never desire the humblest
individual to go where I cannot lead.'"--_Toronto Herald_, June 15,
1843.]
[Footnote 107: For council of condolence, see Appendix A, Section 1, No.
6.]
[Footnote 108: The officers of the 49th, after his death, instructed the
regimental agent in London to procure them a likeness of Sir Isaac
Brock, that it might be placed in their mess-room, and allotted a
handsome sum for this purpose. The agent applied to the family for a
copy, but unfortunately they possessed no good likeness of the general.]
[Footnote 109: The salary attached to the civil government of Upper
Canada was increased, we believe, shortly before his death to £3,000 a
year.]
[Footnote 110: By an official return, it appears that this monument cost
£1,575 sterling. For inscription, &c, see Appendix A, Section 1, No. 7.]
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