the physical weakness which actually rendered
him unfit to command at all. General Armstrong, who, as Secretary of
War, was eager to justify his own conduct, declared that "if instead of
concentrating his whole force, naval and military, on the water side of
the enemy's defences he had divided the attack and crossed the Niagara
below Lewiston and advanced on Fort George by the Queenston road, the
investment of that place would have been complete and a retreat of the
garrison rendered impracticable." This, however, was actually the
movement which Dearborn had planned but failed to execute in time.
Ingersol, a member of Congress and a leader of the war party, bitterly
observed that "the British General effected his retreat (probably
without Dearborn knowing it for he stayed on shipboard) to the mountain
passes where he employed his troops in attacking, defeating, and
capturing ours during all the rest of that year of discomfitures."

THE END.

N. B.--For the engraving, "The Taking of Fort George," we
are indebted to the kindness and courtesy of the Hon. P. A.
Porter, Niagara Falls. It is from the portfolio published in
Philadelphia, 1817, and is particularly interesting to us as
giving the appearance of the churches St. Mark's and St.
Andrew's before the town was burnt down, as also the
Lighthouse situated nearly where the Queen's Royal Hotel
stands now.

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