y Laura Secord--the
future heroine of Lundy's Lane--where, concealed by blankets--owing to
the presence of the enemy--it was allowed to remain for some hours,
unvisited.

* * * * *

Later in the day Major Glegg, Brock's faithful aide--the brave
Macdonell, in extreme agony, lay dying of his wounds--hastened to the
spot, and finding the body of his lamented friend undisturbed, conveyed
it to Niagara, "where it was bedewed by weeping friends whose hearts
were agonized with bitterest sorrow."

[Illustration: BATTLE OF QUEENSTON. From an old Sketch]

SUPPLEMENT

AFTER BROCK'S DEATH.

The "Story of Isaac Brock" would be incomplete without an epitome of the
events that terminated the Battle of Queenston Heights and resulted in
an overwhelming victory for the British.

General Brock was killed in action at about half-past seven on the
morning of October 13th, 1812. His body was removed from Government
House, Niagara, to a cavalier bastion at Fort George, for final
sepulture. This bastion was selected by Major Glegg, it being the one
which Brock's own genius had lately suggested--the one from which the
range of an observer's vision covered the principal points of
approach--and had just been finished under his daily superintendence.

After he fell, the handful of men who were with him, overcome by his
tragic end, overwhelmed by superior numbers and a hurricane of buckshot
and bullets, wavered, and though Dennis attempted to rally them, fell
back and retreated to the far end of Queenston village. Here, about two
hours later, Colonel Macdonell, Brock's aide, collected and reformed the
scattered units, and made another bold dash to rescale the heights and
retake the redan. A detailed account of the incidents that followed in
dramatic succession would fill a book.

With the cry of "Revenge the General!" from the men of the 49th,
Macdonell, on Brock's charger, led the forlorn attack, supported by
Dennis. At the same moment, Williams, with his detachment, emerged from
the thicket, shouting to his men, "Feel firmly to the right, my lads;
advance steadily, charge them home, and they cannot stand you." The two
detachments then combined, and Macdonell ordering a general advance,
they once more breasted the ascent.

The enemy, over four hundred strong, but without proper formation, fired
an independent volley at the British as they approached to within thirty
yards of the redoubt. Th