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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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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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Winfield Scott
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and joined the military. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, Scott was made a lieutenant colonel. He was captured at Queenston Heights (Oct., 1812), but after his exchange he returned to the Niagara frontier and led a successful assault of Fort...
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William Lyon Mackenzie
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...grandfather of William Lyon Mackenzie King . Emigrating to Upper Canada in 1820, he published (1824-34), first at Queenston, then at York (later Toronto), his noted Colonial Advocate. In it he vigorously attacked the governing clique called...
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War of 1812
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...Castlereagh had announced relaxation of the blockade. The Americans failed to overrun Canada, despite battles including Queenston Heights (1812), Chrysler's Farm (1813), Lundy's Lane, and Chippewa (1814). The British retaliated for the destruction...
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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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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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