te bank below
the village of Lewiston. Immediately the alarm was given. The soldiers
were roused from their peaceful slumbers, and marched down to the
landing-place. Meanwhile, a battery of one gun, posted on the heights,
and another about a mile below, began to play on the enemy's boats,
sinking some and disabling others.

Finding it impossible to effect a landing in the face of such
opposition, the Americans, leaving a few of their number to occupy the
attention of the troops on the bank, disembarked some distance up the
river, and succeeded in gaining the summit of the height by a difficult
and unprotected pathway. With loud cheers they captured the one-gun
battery, and rushed down upon Captain Dennis and his command; who,
finding themselves far outnumbered by the enemy, retired slowly towards
the north end of the village. Here they were met by General Brock, who
had set out in advance of reinforcements from the town of Niagara,
accompanied only by two officers. Placing himself at the head of the
little band, the gallant general cried: "Follow me!" and, amid the
cheers of regulars and militia, he led his men back to the height from
which they had been forced to retire. At the foot of the hill the
general dismounted, under the sharp fire of the enemy's riflemen, who
were posted among the trees on its summit, climbed over a high stone
wall, and waving his sword, charged up the hill at the head of his
soldiers. This intrepid conduct at once attracted the notice of the
enemy. One of their sharp-shooters advanced a few paces, took deliberate
aim, and shot the general in the breast. It was a mortal wound. Thus
fell Sir Isaac Brock, the hero of Upper Canada, whose name will outlive
the noble monument which a grateful country has erected to his memory.

The fall of their beloved commander infuriated his followers. With loud
cheers of "Revenge the general!" they pressed forward up the hill, and
drove the enemy from their position. But reinforcements were continually
pouring in from the American shore; and after a deadly struggle, in
which Colonel Macdonell, Captain Dennis, and most of the other officers
fell, these brave men were again compelled to retire. They took refuge
under the guns of the lower battery, there awaiting the arrival of
reinforcements from Niagara. About mid-day the first of these arrived,
consisting of a band of fifty Mohawks, under their chiefs, Norton and
Brant. These Indian allies boldly engaged the en