Niles' Weekly Register Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 edition. Excerpt: ...the rear and flanks of the American army, as soon ai they heard that it had entered the province. The certainty of the expected reinforcements, and Lite weakness of the enemy on the Niagara frontier, had in the mean time, induced general Brock to de L.ch from Die garrison of Kort George, fifty men iVlir-lT i;c'"-leave to refer Tour h the forty-first regiment under captain Chambers, rti, cr particulars. I havc'thi hto the interior of the country for the purpose of 1 collecting such of the Indiana and militia as might he Epady to join him, and of afterwards advancing up-on the left flank nf the enemy. Sixty men of the same regiment were also detached from the garrison to Amh'-rstsburg, and ft-rty to Long Point to collect the militia in that quarter. Having made these dispo-sitions, and having previously sent forward colonel Proctor, of the forty-first regiment to Amlu-rstsburg..--where he arrived and assumed the command on nnuiatcntost giWious.y to I us "'WTM the 26th of last month--general Itroek proceeded himself from York on the 5th inst. for Port St. George and Iiong Point on lake Kric, which last place he left on the 8th following for Amhersthurg, with for-j ty r-nk and file of the forty-first regiment, and two hundred and sixty militia forces. Whilst general Brock was thus hastening his prc-j parations for the relief of Amhurstsburg, the prospects of the American army under general were becoming every day iuoic unfavorable, ami their situation more critical. Tle intelligence of the fall of Michilimacinac had reached them, whichi 8 they knew m'lst expose them to an attack of the Indians in the one quarter, at the same time that they were threatened in another by the force approach-ing under cant. Chambers. An Indian tribe...