rontier forts, and renewed courage
imparted to some of the commanders and their hesitating brigades. The
first to waken up after the expiration of this, to the Americans,
merciful truce, was General Dearborn, who, with 2,000 men, attacked
Odelltown, only to be driven back to Lake Champlain by de Salaberry.
This reverse was followed in the last days of November by an attack by
General Smyth, with 400 of his 4,300 men, upon a four-gun battery,
defended by sixty-five men, above Garden Island, on the Niagara River.
Elated with his success, he took for his rallying cry, "The cannon lost
at Detroit--or death!" and again crossed the river with thirty-two boats
and 900 men, and descended upon Fort Erie. Meanwhile, Colonel Bisshopp
had retaken the fort, with its American captors, and with a handful of
regulars and militia awaited "annihilation." As Smyth's flotilla
advanced, Bisshopp poured in a hot fire, sinking two boats. This
reception did not accord with Smyth's views of the ethics of war, and
forgetting all about the "lost guns," and disliking, upon reflection,
the idea of "death," he at once turned tail. At Buffalo he was publicly
pelted by the populace, and for his cowardice was dismissed the service
by the United States Senate without the formality of a trial.
Dearborn--strange to say--having for the time lost his taste for
fighting, went into winter quarters, and Canada, in universal mourning
for Brock, but still confident and undaunted, rested on her arms. The
year 1812 closed without further incident.

The period thus ended had been a momentous one. Brilliant reputations
had been made and lost. The blood of many patriots had flowed freely,
but, as regarded Canada, not in vain, for, in the words of the American
historian, Schouler, "the war had impressed upon the people of the
Republic the fact that Canada could not be carried by dash, nor pierced
by an army officered by political generals and the invincibles of
peace."

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1813.

Though it would be quite natural to suppose that the story of Isaac
Brock would end with his death and the victory of Queenston Heights, it
is well to remember that the _influence of his triumphs only ceased with
the close of the war_ and the Treaty of Ghent, in December, 1814. Hence
a _resume_ of the events that occurred during 1813 and 1814 is
necessary, if a just valuation of our hero's achievements is desired.

Between July, 1812 and November 5th, 1814, "twelve dist