Queenston Heights, Battle of Before dawn on 13 Oct 1812, the New York state militia launched an invasion across the treacherous currents of the Niagara River at QUEENSTON, UC. Discovering a hidden path to the top of the escarpment, the Americans were able to seize a redan from which a gun had been hampering the flow of reinforcements across the river and gain control of the battle. Maj-Gen Isaac BROCK, commanding British and Canadian forces, personally led a charge to regain the position, losing his life in the unsuccessful attempt. After Brock's aide-de-camp, Lt-Col John Macdonell, was mortally wounded in a similar vain assault, Maj-Gen Roger Hale Sheaffe, arriving from Fort George with reinforcements, ascended the heights out of sight of the Americans. Attacking from the rear, Sheaffe trapped the enemy between his army and the cliff. When the smoke had cleared, almost 1000 Americans were taken prisoner while the victors lost only 28 killed and 77 wounded - regular, militia and Indian. Unfortunately, one of the losses was irreplaceable - the much-admired Isaac Brock. The victory, following hard on Brock's bloodless capture of Detroit, did much to raise the morale of the inhabitants of Upper Canada and convince them that they could resist conquest by their larger neighbour to the south. See also WAR OF 1812.
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