[13] Garneau.
[14] Garneau.
[15] Christie gives him credit for this point.
[16] See letters of "Veritas."
[17] Christie Hist. Can.
[18] Wilkinson's letters
[19] All full accounts of the battle from this stage on are chiefly founded on that remarkable letter of a participant signing "Temoin Oculaire," published in Montreal, 29 Oct., 1813. It is open, however, to some corrections of detail.
[20] Garneau and Sellar; but Coffin says they were French-Canadian voyageurs, and Mr. John Fraser, from tradition, says five-sixths French-Canadians. I have been unable to obtain the necessary verifications from Ottawa or elsewhere.
[21] W.F. Coffin, Hist. War of 1812.
[22] Jame's Military Occurrences, I., 306.