With respect to Brant's abilities as a military leader, there will continue to exist differences of opinion. That he possessed the craftiness of his race in a superlative degree, and that he used this to baffle his opponents on the field of battle, cannot be denied. Some will go further and assert that he had a remarkable genius in the art of stratagem. Whatever powers he had he used, from his boyhood days, in the interests of British rule in America, and the services rendered by this last great leader of the Six Nations in the War of the Revolution were not among the least of the influences that enabled Great Britain to maintain a foothold on the North American continent. Joseph Brant in the War of the Revolution and his descendants in the War of 1812 played essential parts in firmly basing British institutions and British rule in Canada. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The principal authority for material on Joseph Brant is William L. Stone's _Life of Joseph Brant_ (Thayendanegea), 2 vols. (1838). This includes an account of the border wars of the American Revolution and sketches of the Indian campaigns of Generals Harmar, St Clair, and Wayne. A brief biography entitled _Memoir of Captain Joseph Brant_, 'compiled from authentic records,' was published anonymously in Brantford in 1872. _History of Brant County_ (1883), Part II, pages 85-149, is devoted almost exclusively to Brant and his family. Samuel G. Drake's _Biography and History of the Indians of North America from its First Discovery_ has one chapter (pp. 577-93) given exclusively to Brant. The chapter in the same work dealing with Red Jacket will also be found of interest to the student of Brant's career. William L. Stone, Jr.'s _Life and Times of Sir William Johnson_, 2 vols. (1865), contains much valuable information regarding the events which shaped the early career of Brant. B. B. Thatcher in his _Indian Biography_, 2 vols., dismisses Brant with an unsympathetic and prejudiced paragraph, but several of his chapters, particularly the one dealing with Red Jacket, throw much light on the struggles in which Brant took part. Other works which contain much material relating to Joseph Brant are Mrs Holden's _The Brant Family_; Eleazar Wheelock's _Narrative of the Original Design, Rise, Progress and Present State of the Indian Charity-School at Lebanon, In Connecticut_ (1763); William V. Moore's _Indian Wars of the United States_; Jean N. McIlwraith's _Sir Frederick Haldimand_, and A. G. Bradley's _Lord Dorchester_ in the 'Makers of Canada' series; Lewis H. Morgan's _League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois_; E. M. Chadwick's _The People of the Long House_; _Documents relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1759-1791_, selected and edited by Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty; _Haldimand Papers_, January 1779 to March 1783, copies of which are in the Dominion Archives; _Handbook of Canadian Indians_, edited by James White, F.R.G.S.