INDEX

A

ABERCROMBY, GENERAL, [13], [14], [15], [16], [20], [21], [34], [64]

Act, non-importation, [85]

Adams, United States brig, [178], [256]

Albany, [50], [192], [203], [233]

Amherstburg, Fort (Malden), description of, [59]; 41st Regiment at, [74]; assistant quartermaster-general stationed at, [80]; Indians gather there, [152]; militia at, [177]; Brock gives his attention to, [196]; Colonel Procter arrives, [216]; Brock and his squadron set out for, [230-2]; the advance expected, [235]; first skirmish, [236]; Brock's general order from, [247-8]; another attack expected, [273-4]; Captain Muir returns to, [275]

Amherst, General Lord, [35], [70], [179]

Amiens, peace of, [9], [30-1], [43], [78]

Armistice, the, [233], [261], [270-2], [276]

Armstrong, General, [81]; American minister in Paris, [112]

Assembly, House of, [76], [143-5], [183], [184], [228], [229]

B

BABY, COLONEL, [209], [229], [248]

Bâton Rouge, on the Mississippi, [7], [139]

Baynes, Colonel, adjutant-general, letters to Brock, [134], [137-8], [145], [155], [180], [185], [204], [205], [208]; Brock writes to, [183], [185], [198]; sent to General Dearborn with the proposition for an armistice, [233]

Bédard, Captain, [105]; arrest of, [127-9]; release of, [145]; appointed judge, [158]

Bowes, Colonel, [69], [73], [78]

Bonaparte, Napoleon, [6], [9], [23], [24], [30], [38], [40], [41], [45], [71], [140], [167], [188]

Brock, Daniel de Lisle, [70]

Brock, Elizabeth, wife of John E. Tupper, [71]

Brock, Irving, [71], [102], [131], [132], [140], [143], [162], [163]

Brock, Isaac, his birthplace, [1]; family of, [5], [6]; sent to school, [7]; obtains a commission by purchase, [7]; purchases his lieutenancy, [8]; gazetted as captain, [8]; service in the West Indies, [9]; purchases a majority, [10]; becomes senior lieutenant-colonel of the 49th, [10]; associated with Nelson and Stewart, [24-5]; leads the 49th, [27]; arrives in Canada, [33]; at York, [48], [60-3]; in command at Fort George, [64]; his report, [64-7]; at Quebec, [69]; made a full colonel, [70]; as commander-in-chief, [75]; his correspondence with President Dunn, [76], [77]; correspondence about Indian affairs, [78]; looks into accounts, [79], [80]; supervises the marine department, [80]; in Quebec, [86], [90]; on military service, [96]; letter to Colonel Gordon, [97]; letters to Ross Cuthbert, [98], [102]; leaves Quebec and takes command in Montreal, [99]; appointed acting brigadier-general, [99]; letter to his brother Irving, [102]; returns to Quebec, [115]; longing for service in Europe, [123], [124]; settled at Fort George, [133]; his books, [135-6]; letters, [140]; a visit to York, [143]; correspondence with Sir James Craig, [149], [151], [152], [176]; made major-general, [157]; appointed president and administrator of the government of Upper Canada, [159]; misfortune to, [161-7]; declines permission to return to England, [180-1]; his measures in the House of Assembly, [184-5]; preparations for war, [189-90]; letter to Colonel Baynes, [198]; general order from Niagara, [205-6]; general order from Fort George, [212-13]; his appeal, [219-21]; his powers in his combined military and civil capacity, [225-7]; describes Tecumseh, [247]; general order from Amherstburg, [247-8]; demands Hull's surrender of Detroit, [250-1]; celebrates the victory, [258]; regrets the armistice, [261]; letter to his brothers, [266-8]; receives congratulations from Sir George Prevost, [268-9]; writes from Fort George, [272-3]; letter re the attack on Fort Wayne, [276-7]; letter to Savery Brock, [280-1]; regiments under his immediate command, [287]; his report of the loss of the Detroit and the Caledonia, [290-3]; appointed a knight of the Order of the Bath, [296]; last letter to Sir George Prevost, [298]; his ride to Queenston, [298-301]; orders the evacuation of the redan battery, [303]; leads the attack on the heights, [304]; his death, [304]; funeral rites, [312-15]

Brock, John, father of Sir Isaac, [6]

Brock, Mary, wife of T. Potenger, [71]

Brock, Savery, [15], [17], [18], [19], [27], [71], [123], [132], [161], [162], [163], [166]

Brock, William, [5], [70], [124], [161], [163], [165], [167]

Brownstown, [237], [238], [243], [245]

Bruyères, Lieutenant-Colonel, [157], [230]

C

Caledonia, brig, [210]; captured by Americans, [289-92]

Cameron, Captain, [299], [301], [306]

Canadien, Le, newspaper, [92], [104], [116], [127], [147]

Canning, George, secretary of war, [81], [83], [84], [85], [118], [119], [120], [122]

Carleton, Sir Guy, see Lord Dorchester.

Castlereagh, Lord, [103], [118]; succeeds the Marquis of Wellesley in office, [191]

Chambers, Captain, [218], [235]; major, [247]

Champagny, Napoleon's secretary of war, [111], [172]

Château de Ramezay, Brock quartered at, [101]

Château St. Louis, [34], [46], [75], [90]

Chesapeake, the, [82-6]

Chippawa, Fort, [53], [58], [202], [310]

Constitution, American frigate, [123], [284]

Copenhagen, [23], [26], [30], [31], [106], [124]

Craig, Sir James, governor-general and commander-in-chief, [90-2]; his first duty, [93]; appoints Brock brigadier-general, [99]; writes to Lord Castlereagh, [103]; distrusts the French Canadians, [104]; refers to the effect of the embargo, [115]; asks for reinforcements, [118]; prorogues the House, [127]; seizes the press of Le Canadien, [127]; unwilling to grant Brock leave of absence, [130]; ill health, [142]; last public act, [145]; his triumph over the assembly, [145]; utterly broken down, [147]; in reference to the Indians, [149], [153]; leaves Canada, [156]; his death, [156]

D

DEAN, private, [236-7], [258]

Dearborn, Fort, (Chicago), [174], [266]

Dearborn, General (United States), [192], [233], [261], [285]

Decrees, Bayonne, [122]; Berlin, [81-2], [93], [105], [172], [193]; Milan, [110], [172], [193]

Detroit, formerly the Adams, [274]; captured by the Americans, [289-92]

Detroit, Fort, [53], [54], [177], [190-1], [195], [197], [218], [235], [238], [245]; its attack and capture, [248-60]

Dorchester, Lord, (Sir Guy Carleton), [34], [36-8], [47], [53], [56], [75], [103], [152]

Drummond, Major-General, [115], [157]

Dunn, Thomas, president and acting governor, [69], [73], [76], [77], [86], [94], [96], [157]

E

EGMONT op Zee, [17], [18]

Elliott, Colonel, [230], [245], [280]

Elmsley, Chief Justice, [69], [76]

Embargo, the, [85], [108]; effect of, [109]; repeal of, [113]

Emulous, vessel, [224]

Erie, Fort, [53], [59], [178], [181], [206], [216]

F

FITZ GIBBON, COLONEL, [18], [66], [67]

Florida, West, [42], [43], [112], [139]

G

GALLATIN, secretary of the United States navy, [81], [108]

Ganges, battleship, [27]

Gazette, Upper Canada, [57]; Quebec, [93]; Montreal, [93]

George, Fort, description of, [56]; planned by Simcoe, [58]; Procter commands at, [74]; boats kept at, [80]; Brock winters at, [153]; magazines prepared at, [182]; Brock's headquarters, [204]; counter appeal issued from, [217]; another proclamation from, [219]; Myers in charge of affairs at, [225]; prisoners at, [263-4]; Brock buried there, [313]

Glegg, Captain, A.D.C., [204], [207], [232], [251], [255], [259], [271], [302]

Glengarry Fencibles, proposed, [97-8]; the corps raised, [180]; Brock proposes giving grants of land to members of, [185]; part of the force for the defence of the frontier, [201]

Gore, Sir Francis, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, [8], [78], [97], [138], [159], [167-8]

Guerriére, H.M.S., [173], [284]

H

HARRISON, GENERAL, ("Old Tippecanoe"), [175-6]

Henry, John, agent on secret mission, [120], [186-8]

Hull, General, marches for Michigan, [203]; his advance, [208-9]; occupies Sandwich, [213]; his proclamation to the people of Canada, [213-14]; loses heavy baggage and stores, [218]; writes to Washington, [236]; abandons Sandwich for Detroit, [238]; receives and refuses Brock's demand to surrender, [251]; surrenders, [255]; criticized, [257]; as prisoner of war, [261]; home on parole, [283]; trial and sentence, [283-4]

Humphrey, Captain of the Leopard, [83]

Hunter, sloop of war, [178], [217], [218], [243], [249]

Hunter, General, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, [45], [50], [51], [59], [60], [63], [65], [69]

J

JEFFERSON, PRESIDENT, [38], [41], [43], [108], [112], [113], [259], [285]

K

KEMPT, COLONEL, afterwards General Sir James, [140-1]

Kingston, [56], [65], [173-9], [203], [229], [268]

L

Leopard, the, [82-3]

Lewiston, [285], [299], [300], [303], [309], [311]

Little Belt, a corvette, [173]

Louisiana, handed back to France, [38]; its purchase, [41-3]

Lovett, John, secretary to General Van Rensselaer, [264], [286]

M

MACDONELL, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, chosen as aide-de-camp, [230]; sent with the demand for the surrender of Detroit, [251]; goes back to Detroit to arrange the terms of capitulation, [255]; at Vrooman's Point, [301-2]; at the battle of Queenston Heights, [305-6].

McArthur, Colonel, United States, [203], [249]

Madison, President, [120], [139], [173], [187], [213]

Maguaga, [238-43], [245]

Malden, Fort, see Amherstburg.

Michilimackinac, Fort, [53], [177], [205], [210-11], [227-8]

N

NAPOLEON, EMPEROR, [71], [72], [73], [81], [82], [98], [105], [106-8], [111-13], [117-19], [125-6], [172], [188]

Nelson, Lord, [24-30], [47]

Niagara (Newark), [60]; invasion expected between Fort Erie and, [178]; Brock gives his attention to, [195]; general order from, [205]; well fortified, [225]

Niagara, Fort (U.S.), [54-6]; its attack suggested, [219]; stores and troops arriving, [269], [274]; silenced, [309]

Nichol, Lieutenant-Colonel, [206], [207], [248], [253]

Non-Intercourse, Bill, [120]

O

ORDERS-IN-COUNCIL, [93], [106], [111]; withdrawal of, [120-1], [223], [269]

P

PANET, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, speaker of the assembly, [104], [105], [115]

President, United States frigate, [173]

Prevost, Sir George, arrives in Halifax, [101]; assumes command, [157-8]; letter from Brock to, [178-9]; hampered by home instructions, [184]; cautious and forbearing, [190], [194-5], [216], [288], [204]; receives word of declaration of war, [207-8]; despatch from Brock to, [223]; correspondence re Brock's powers, [226-7]; his views concerning the capture of Fort Michilimackinac, [227-8]; congratulates Brock, [268-9]; advises evacuation of Detroit, [277]

Procter, Lieutenant-Colonel, commands at Fort George, [74]; to assume command between Niagara and Fort Erie, [205-6]; sent to Amherstburg, [216]; sends a detachment to Brownstown, [237]; in charge of the western district, [247]; in command at Detroit, [262]; letter from Brock to, [293]; compared with Brock, [312]

Q

QUEBEC, description of, [33-4]; centre of society, [46]; mutineers and deserters sentenced at, [63]; Brock quartered at, [69]; 49th and 100th Regiments there, [74]; fortifications of, [75-7], [94]; boats at, [80]; old, [89-98]; gaiety in, [132]; House of Assembly at, [143-5]; the town militia volunteers, [205]

Queenston, [58], [61], [206]; battle of Queenston Heights, [298-312]

R

RIDOUT, SURVEYOR-GENERAL, letter from, [168]

Roberts, Captain, [202], [205], [210], [227]

Robinson, Lieutenant, afterwards Sir John Beverley, [298], [299] (note), [302], [305], [314]

Rolette, Lieutenant, [218], [243], [292]

Rottenburg, Colonel Baron de, [123], [134], [137], [217]

Ryland, H. W., secretary, [47], [86], [92], [105], [120], [129], [145-7], [186], [203]

S

SACKETTS HARBOUR, [178], [201], [269], [270], [271]

Sandwich, [50], [213], [218], [229], [238], [248], [250], [251]

Saumarez, Admiral Lord de, [6], [124]

Sheaffe, Lieutenant-Colonel, at Egmont op Zee, [19]; in command in Jersey, [22]; at Fort George, [48]; mutiny under, [61-4]; in Quebec, [74]; a hint from Thornton, [159]; major-general on the staff, [223]; at Queenston Heights, [309-12]

St. George, Colonel, [214], [216], [218], [236], [247]

St. Joseph, Fort, [74], [202], [204], [210], [227]

T

TECUMSEH, Indian chief, [150-1], [174-6], [237-8], [243], [245-7], [251], [254], [257]

V

VAN RENSSELAER, MAJOR-GENERAL, [284], [285], [288]

Van Rensselaer, Colonel, [284] (note), [300]

Vincent, Colonel, [124], [134], [229]

Vesey, Colonel, [138-9], [153-4]; made major-general, [157]

W

WADSWORTH, BRIGADIER-GENERAL, [213]

Wayne, Fort, a base of supplies for the United States army, [262]; unsuccessful expedition against, [274-5]

William Henry, Fort, [80], [283]

Wyndham, Rt. Hon. Sir W., secretary of the colonies, [75]

Y

YORK, DUKE OF, [13], [15], [16], [20-1], [64], [70], [155], [159]

York (Toronto), [45], [51]; seat of government, [57]; number of vessels at, [80]; its fortifications begun, [182]; House of Assembly opened at, [183]; news of declaration of war reaches Brock at, [204]; Brock returns to, [221-3]