Identifier: storyofisaacbroc00nursey (find matches)
Title: The story of Isaac Brock, hero, defender and saviour of upper Canada, 1812
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Nursey, Walter R., 1847-1927. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Brock, Isaac, Sir, 1769-1812. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Toronto, W. Briggs
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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l timidity on the part of Prevost, the man with the liquid backbone. With 11,000 seasoned veterans who had campaigned under Wellington, he advanced, September 14th, on Plattsburg, garrisoned by only 4,000 Americans, and when vic-tory smiled in his face, he actually ordered the retreat. Overcome with humiliation, his officers broke their swords, declaring they could never serve again, and sullenly retraced their steps to the frontier. This was the crowning episode that destroyed Provosts reputation. Death rescued him from the disgrace of court-martial. How clear-cut and free from blemish, in contrast with that of many of his contemporaries, stands out the brilliant record of Isaac Brock. The Treaty of Ghent—while satisfactory to the people of Canada, bringing as it did a cessation of hostilities, permanent peace, and recognition of their rights—was received with mixed satisfaction by both political parties in the United States, after the first flush of excitement had passed away. What, the 172
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Cenotaph, Queenston Heights. Erected near the spot where Brock fell. Supplement citizens asked each other, have we gained by a war into which the country was dragged by President Madison in defence of free-trade and sailors rights, and in opposition to paper blockades? In the articles of peace, these vexed questions (as related inChapters VIII. and XIV.)—questions which, as we have seen, were advanced by the United States Government as the real cause for war, were not even mentioned. Some worthy Americans, having suffered from the fighting qualities of the Canadian loyalists, publicly stated that the declaration of peace had delivered them from great peril. In some of the States the universal joy was so great, writes Gay, in his Life of Madison, that Republicans and Democrats forgot their differences and hates and wept and laughed by turns in each others arms, and kissed each other like women. Another United States historian (Johnston) writes that peace secured not one of the objects for which war had been declared, for, though Britain put

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