comrade, Totten, on his sword point,
and with another officer, Gibson, was hurrying to present this flag of
truce, when two Indians confronted them on the narrow trail. Jacobs,
Brant's powerful follower, wrenched Scott's sword away, hatchets were
drawn, and had not a British grenadier sergeant rushed forward, Winfield
Scott would have fared badly.

General Van Rensselaer's defeat was complete and disastrous. His chagrin
at his failure "to appal the minds of the Canadians" was so great that
ten days later he resigned his command.

The account between Canada and the United States at sundown on that day
stood as follows: Total American force engaged, 1,600. Killed and
wounded, or sent back across the river, during the fight, 500.
Prisoners, 73 officers, including two generals and five colonels,
together with 852 rank and file. Total loss, 1,425 men, besides the
colours of the New York regiment, one six-pounder, 815 carbines and
bayonets, and 5,950 rounds of ball and buckshot.

The total British force engaged was 1,000. Of these 800 were regulars
and militia, and 200 Indians. Killed, 14, including one major-general
and one aide. Wounded and missing, 96. Total American loss, 1,425. Total
British loss, 110. _The next day the British General, Sheaffe, Isaac
Brock's successor, signed another armistice. The second armistice within
a period of nine weeks!_

Such is the story of the Battle of Queenston Heights.

SUBSEQUENT EVENTS OF THE CAMPAIGN OF 1812.

After Van Rensselaer resigned his command in favour of Brigadier-General
Smyth, the effect of the British victory upon the United States troops
at Lewiston was beyond belief. While the British soldiers were, with
characteristic indifference, hard at work at Fort George cutting wood
and threshing straw, the American soldiers across the river, according
to their own historians, were deserting by the hundreds. Of General
Tannehill's brigade of 1,414 of all ranks, 1,147 deserted within a few
days. Twenty of these were officers.

Had the British been allowed to profit by this demoralization of the
enemy and followed up their brilliant successes, they could, as Brock
predicted, have swept the frontier from Chippewa to Sackett's Harbour,
and probably prevented a continuance of the two years' war. The
Sheaffe-Prevost inexcusable thirty days' truce was the very respite the
enemy had prayed for. More men and more munitions were hurriedly
despatched to all the United States f