rles Tupper, of his majesty's ship Primrose, drowned at
Spithead, in 1815, by the upsetting of the boat in which he was
accompanying his commander from Portsmouth to the ship; second,
Lieutenant E.W. Tupper,[152] his majesty's ship Sybille, mortally
wounded in action with Greek pirates, near Candia, on the 18th June,
1826; third, Lieutenant William Potenger, adjutant 22d regiment, died on
the 19th November, 1827, of the fever, at Jamaica; fourth, Colonel W.
De Vic Tupper,[153] of the Chilian service, slain in action near Talca,
on the 17th April, 1830; and, fifth, the great nephew, Ensign A.
Delacombe Potenger,[154] of the 5th Bengal Native Infantry, while in
command of the light company, was killed by a bullet, which entered his
breast, in the disastrous retreat of the British army from Cabool, in
January, 1842. The remaining nephew, Captain Eugene Brock, of the 20th
regiment, died at Bermuda, in January, 1844.

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Our memoir is concluded, and even if in its progress we have but feebly
and imperfectly narrated the career and portrayed the character of him
who is the subject, we trust that our labour has not been in vain,
because we feel that we have rescued much from oblivion that was
hitherto unknown and unrecorded. It was that feeling which prompted us
to undertake this work; and, in completing our task, we are not without
hope that the simple language of soberness and truth will be preferred
to a memorial composed with more art, but dictated by less sincerity.
And should we in the course of these pages have inadvertently fallen
into undue panegyrism, that common error of biographers, our excuse must
be, that we could scarcely avoid eulogizing one of whom it was written,
soon after his untimely fall, by a bosom friend:

"General Brock[155] was indeed a hero, a hero in the only true and in
the most extensive sense, resembling what history or fable has
represented, rather as the offspring of the imagination than a personage
that could have real existence, so entirely was every great and good
quality comprehended in his character."

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_Additional Notes_.

The garrison of Michilimakinack, when surprised in 1763, (see page 244,)
consisted of the commandant, Major Etherington, two subalterns, and
ninety soldiers; and there were four English traders there. Of these
Lieutenant Jemette, about seventy soldiers, and one trader, were
massacred; but the c