2012, ISBN: 1235966682

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[EAN: 9781235966682], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: .while on a reconnoitring party, into the hands of the enemy, who had laid in ambush for him. He received several balls through the body, of which he languished some days, receiving, however, the greatest attention from the american surgeons, as well as from those of the british, who were allowed by the enemy to cross the lines to attend him. The body, after his decease, was sent to the lines, escorted by a party of the american military, with the honors of war, and every mark of respect for the memory of the deceased. The arrival at Quebec, of a strong reinforcement of sixteen thousand men, of the Duke of Wellington's army, from the Garonne, in July and August, determined Sir George Prevost, to invade the state of New York, by the way of Lake Champlain. The flotilla at Isle-aux The following general order, issued at Montreal, on the 23d of August, 1814, shortly after their arrival, gave great offence to the officers of the division of the army pointed at, and made Sir George Prevost, very unpopular in it, many of them making no scruples in expressing their conviction of his inadequacy for the position in which he was placed, and their determination to disregard the general order, as a piece of petitfste: --"Head Quarters, Montreal, 23d August, 1814. "General Order.--The commander of the forces has observed in the dress of several of the officers of corps and departments lately added to this army, from that of Field Marshal the Duke of Welling Noix was necessary to co-operate with thech;r land forces, and the commissary general and XIX, quarter-master general, in order to expedite the new frigate, the Confiance, were directed to suspend every other branch of the public service which interfered with its equipment. Sir James L. Yeo was urged, by the c.<