[Footnote 20: Afterwards Major-General Barnard Foord Bowes, slain on the
27th June, 1812, while leading the troops to the assault of the forts of
Salamanca. Monuments in St. Paul's, to the memory of Major-General Bowes
and of Sir Isaac Brock, were voted in the House of Commons on the same
day, 20th July, 1813.]

[Footnote 21: On the passage of the 100th to Quebec, in 1805, one of the
transports was wrecked on the 21st October, on the coast of
Newfoundland; and Major Bertram, three captains, six lieutenants, the
assistant-surgeon, and about 260 men of the regiment, miserably
perished.]




CHAPTER III.


_Brigadier Brock to his Brothers_.

MONTREAL, July 20, 1808.

I have written to all of you since the navigation opened, and
the only letters I have received from any of the family for
several months came from Irving, who, to do him justice, is
infinitely the most attentive and regular correspondent among
you.

My appointment to be brigadier I first announced by the March
mail. Those who feel an interest in my prosperity will rejoice