ada, to prevent General Brock from proceeding to
the western district, but which most happily was prevented from taking
effect by the extraordinary rapidity of the movements of that most
zealous and gallant officer, who had arrived thither before the officer
so sent could reach him.--_Letters of Veritas._]

[Footnote 87: See extract from Letters of Veritas on this point.
Appendix A, Section 1, No. 3.]

[Footnote 88: Appendix A, Section 1, No. 4.]

[Footnote 89: This letter was forwarded by Brigade-Major Shekleton with
that of the 12th August (see page 217), from Sir George Prevost, who
doubtless wrote another the following day relative to the armistice, but
we cannot find it among Major-General Brock's papers.]

[Footnote 90: Coteau du Lac and Isle aux Noix are the keys of Lower
Canada; the former completely commands the navigation of the St.
Lawrence between the Upper and Lower Provinces, and the latter had been
so decidedly regarded as the barrier of Lower Canada from the Champlain
frontier, that it excited the particular attention of the French
engineers in the last defence of the country, and was afterwards
fortified at considerable expense by General Haldimand, daring the war
of the American revolution.--_Quarterly Review_.]

[Footnote 91: Fort Wayne is situated at the junction of the St. Mary and
St. Joseph rivers, which form the Miami of the lake, and not more than
twelve miles from the navigable waters of the Wabash. This post is
nearly in the centre of the Indian settlements on this side the
Mississippi. Many Indian villages lay from twelve to sixty miles from
this place.--_Brown's American History_.]

[Footnote 92: "The Indians on this occasion" (the defence of
Michilimakinack, in 1814,) "behaved with exemplary zeal and fidelity in
our cause; and indeed their attachment throughout has been such as to
make me blush for my country, in the dereliction of their interests in
the negotiations at Ghent, after so many promises made them, and so fair
a prospect at the commencement of these negotiations."--_Letters of
Veritas_.]

[Footnote 93: See page 291. We cannot discover a copy of Major-General
Brock's letter of the 7th September, to Sir George Prevost, to which the
latter officer refers in his letter of the 14th.]

[Footnote 94: This communication, of which we have no particulars, is
the more singular, as Colonel Van R---- commanded the advance of the
American attacking party on the 13th of October, when