[66] His age was then about forty.
[67] The American historian, Thomson, in his "Sketches of the War," says that General Hull surrendered "to a body of troops inferior in quality as well as number!" and he adds: "When General Brock said that the force at his disposal authorized him to require the surrender, he must have had a very exalted opinion of the prowess of his own soldiers, or a very mistaken one of those who were commanded by the American general."
[68] Including four brass field pieces, captured with General Burgoyne, at Saratoga, in 1777, and which were retaken by the Americans, at the battle of the Thames, in October, 1813.
[69] Afterwards named the Detroit.
[70] Appendix A, Section 2, No. 1. Jefferson's Correspondence.
[71] Christie's Memoirs.
[72] Doubtless an error for 1330, the entire British force.
[73] There is a tradition in the editor's family, that one of its members removed from Guernsey to England early in the seventeenth century, and that a son of his, a clergyman, settled in the island of Barbadoes, whence he or his family emigrated to the then British provinces of North America, now the United States.
[74] James' Military Occurrences.
[75] For his revolutionary services, see Appendix A, Section 2, No. 2.