[12] Garneau, Hist. Can.

[13] Garneau.

[14] Garneau.

[15] Christie gives him credit for this point.

[16] See letters of "Veritas."

[17] Christie Hist. Can.

[18] Wilkinson's letters

[19] All full accounts of the battle from this stage on are chiefly
founded on that remarkable letter of a participant signing "Temoin
Oculaire," published in Montreal, 29 Oct., 1813. It is open, however,
to some corrections of detail.

[20] Garneau and Sellar; but Coffin says they were French-Canadian
_voyageurs_, and Mr. John Fraser, from tradition, says _five-sixths_
French-Canadians. I have been unable to obtain the necessary
verifications from Ottawa or elsewhere.

[21] W.F. Coffin, Hist. War of 1812.

[22] Jame's Military Occurrences, I., 306.

[23] Coffin.