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Queenston Heights, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Queenston Heights, battle of, 1812. The first major battle of the War of 1812...on, brave York volunteers’, addressed to colonial troops. Queenston Heights thus became a symbolic Canadian rejection of the USA. Brock and...
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Queenston
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Queenston village, S Ont., Canada, just N of Niagara Falls. There the British defeated American invaders in the battle of Queenston Heights (Oct. 13, 1812) in the War of 1812. The British commanding general, Sir Isaac Brock, was killed in the fighting.
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Sir Isaac Brock
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1812, he was killed at the battle of Queenston Heights. As he fell, his last words...of Brock's victories at Detroit and Queenston Heights. In 1824, on the twelfth anniversary...remains were placed beneath a monument at Queenston Heights erected by the provincial legislature...
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William Lyon Mackenzie
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...America. In 1824 he began to publish the Colonial Advocate and before the year was out had moved its place of publication from Queenston to York (Toronto). Through his newspaper he attacked the men of privilege and power within the colony so vigorously that...
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War of 1812
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Canadian force under Isaac Brock. On the Niagara River, an American expedition was repulsed after a successful attack on Queenston Heights, because the militia under Stephen Van Rensselaer would not cross the New York state boundary. On the sea, however...
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Laura (Ingersoll) Secord
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...by her parents to Canada after the American Revolution. In 1813 she learned from U.S. troops billeted in her house at Queenston of a planned surprise attack on the British at Beaver Dams on the Niagara frontier. She made her way through the American...
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Stephen Van Rensselaer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...state militia during the War of 1812, he commanded troops along the northern frontier and was badly defeated in an attack on Queenston in Canada; he thereupon resigned his command. Van Rensselaer founded (1824) a technical school at Troy, N.Y., which...
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Kearny, Stephen Watts
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...New Jersey family, Kearny became a regular army lieutenant in the War of 1812 . He served with distinction at the Battle of Queenston Heights on the Niagara frontier. Promoted in the postwar period, he served in several expeditions and posts on the western...
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Sir John Beverley Robinson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Robinson received a commission under Gen. Sir Isaac Brock and was present at the capture of Ft. Detroit and at the battle at Queenston, where Brock lost his life. From late 1812 until the end of the war in 1815, Robinson was the acting attorney general of...
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cuesta
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...000 years ago, Niagara Falls first formed where the Niagara River crosses the Niagara cuesta at Lewiston, N.Y., and Queenston, Ont. Since then, the falls have migrated nearly 7 mi (11 km) southward as a result of undercutting and rockfall, leaving...
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