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4 The Fife and Drum
Jan. 5 US President James Madison and James Monroe, Mar. 14 Seeking to conserve secretary of state, accepted a British offer of direct food supplies Lieutenantnegotiations to end the war. The commissioners opened General Gordon Drummond in discussion in Ghent on August 8. his capacity as Administrator for Upper Canada prohibited Jan. 12 Patrick Hartney, barrack master at Fort York the distillation of spirits or and a widower, was married to Mary Marshall by Rev. John low wines from wheat, corn, or Strachan. (see “Patrick Hartney, barrack master at Fort York,” other grain during the ensuing season. Fife and Drum December 2011) Feb. In late January, 216 Royal Navy seamen sailed Mar. 19 Six men summoned from Halifax to Saint John where citizens provided sleighs to explain why they had failed to transport them on to Fredericton. Setting off for Quebec to send their teams and sleighs in early February they arrived by the end of the month then for government service were marched off to Kingston, making fifty-three days on the dismissed when the constable George-Theodore Berthon, road. Portrait of Lieut. General Gordon did not attend court in York. Drummond, Administrator of Upper Mar. Although Col. Ralph Bruyeres of the Royal Canada, 1813-1815. Credit: Archives Mar. 30 An invading force of Engineers reported “a total want of Artificers” Fort York’s of Ontario, item no. 693127 4000 American regulars was existing Blockhouses One and Two were completed this month. repelled at the second Battle of Lacolle in Lower Canada. Mar. 4 At the Battle of the Longwoods, near Glencoe, Ontario, an American victory over a larger force of British regulars, militia, and Native allies was consistent with the spotty control the British had over the western part of the province during the last year of the war.
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