Prevost's situation
could have been so infatuated as to disregard the importance of
maintaining his superiority!"--_Quarterly Review_.]

[Footnote 121: "General Sheaffe has been much blamed, first for the
injudicious position of the troops, by which the grenadier company of
the 8th regiment, who behaved with great gallantry, were exposed to be
cut to pieces in a wood, and again for not returning to the attack,
after the explosion of a powder magazine had destroyed 250 of the enemy,
and thrown them into confusion."--_Quarterly Review_.]

[Footnote 122: Pictorial History of England.]

[Footnote 123: Extract from the Pictorial History of England.]

[Footnote 124: "Sir George Prevost was beyond all doubt the immediate
commander of this expedition. But he found it convenient not to appear
in that character; and the only detail of operations was in the shape of
a dispatch from his adjutant-general to himself, obligingly
communicating what was already sufficiently known to him. By this
ingenious device, he in some measure averted the exposure of miscarriage
from himself, and generously yielded his laurels, such as they were, to
his grateful and submissive follower."--_Quarterly Review_.]

[Footnote 125: "The reader now sees the fatal consequences; first, of
not having, in the autumn of 1812, destroyed the two or three schooners
which were equipping at Buffaloe by Lieutenant Elliott; secondly, of not
having, in the spring of 1813, secured the possession of Sackett's
Harbour; thirdly, of not having, in the summer of the same year,
captured or destroyed the whole American fleet, as it lay, unmanned, in
Presqu'ile Harbour."--_James' Military Occurrences_.]

[Footnote 126: The present Major-General Sir John Harvey, K.C.B.]

[Footnote 127: While the Americans retained Fort George, the graves of
Sir Isaac Brock and Lieut.-Colonel M'Donell, in the cavalier bastion
there, remained sacred, and were also respected.]

[Footnote 128: It strikes us as singular that Captain Roberts was not
promoted to at least a brevet majority for the capture of this important
post, although he had an overwhelming force, and took it without
resistance. Was this promotion withheld because the capture was effected
contrary to Sir George Prevost's orders?]

[Footnote 129: "The land, in the centre of this island, is high, and its
form somewhat resembles that of a turtle's back. Mackinac, or Mickinac,
signifies a _turtle_, and _michi (mishi)_, or _missi