FOOTNOTES:
[457] Baynes to Prevost. Canadian Archives, C. 377, pp. 27-37.
[458] Life of Brock, p. 258. Brock first heard of the suspension August 23, at Fort Erie, on his return toward Niagara. Life, p. 274. See also a letter from Brock to the American General Van Rensselaer, in the Defence of General Dearborn, by H.A.S. Dearborn, p. 8.
[459] Chauncey to the Secretary of the Navy, Sept. 26, 1812. Captains' Letters, Navy Department MSS.
[460] Elliott's report of this affair will be found in the Captains' Letters, Navy Department MSS., forwarded by Chauncey Oct. 16, 1812.
[461] Life of Brock, p. 315.
[462] Ibid., p. 316.
[463] Porter's Address to the Public. Niles' Register, vol. iii. p. 284.
[464] See Eustis's Letter to Dearborn, Aug. 15, 1812. Hall's Memoirs of the Northwestern Campaign, p. 87.
[465] Life of Brock, pp. 106, 130, 181.