Battle of Crysler's Farm 11 Nov. 1813
Ref; 'Field of Glory' by Donald E Graves.
This book will inform one of everything one would want to know about this battle. It also deals with the Battle of Chateauguay [refer to my post of 26 Oct.]
Info also available in Pierre Burton's 'Flames across the Border' 1813-1814 pgs 235-243; and
Jon Latimer's '1812 War with America' pg 195-216
From a booklet by Donald E Graves a ' Brillliant Little Affair' Canadian Battle Series #13, outside back cover, "Nov. 11, 1813 was a gray wintry day. In the fields of [near] John Crysler's farm on the banks of the St. Lawrence a combined body of British regulars and Canadian Militia faced off against a much superior American invasion force. The battle that ensued made an important contribution to the outcome of the War of 1812. The American defeat at Crysler's Farm ended the most serious invasion of Canada during a war that had already raged for seventeen months"
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11 November 2011
10 November 2011
Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society November Branch Meeting
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| Minister Kenny with a copy of Sandra's book |
Location: City of Ottawa Archives, 100 Tallwood Drive
Topic: The Street Arab – The Story of a British Home Child
Speaker: Sandra Joyce, author
Website: sandrajoyce.com/The_Street_Arab.html
Everyone welcome. Free refreshments. Free parking.
Ancestry is Providing FREE Access to all Canadian Military Records Until November 13
- Burial Registers WW1
- Selected Service Records of War Dead
- Commonwealth War Graves Registers
- Melitia and Defence Forces
- Kitchener Ontario German War Graves
- Rebellion of 1837, Upper Canada
- Miscellaneous 1812 Records
http://search.ancestry.ca/search/group/ca_military?lcid=4105#databases
09 November 2011
Timeline Nov 9 to 12
Nov 9
1789 Lord Dorchester, as governor general, created the Order of the Unity of the Empire (UE) and proclaimed that this hereditary title was to be conferred upon those who had fought for the crown and had suffered as the King's faithful subjects during the American Revolutionary War.
1869 Actress Marie Dressler was born in Coburg.
1965 The great Northeast blackout occurred covering an area from Ontario to Florida and from Chicago to New York. The power failure started in the sir Adam Beck power generation station at Queenston and lasted up to 13 1/2 hours.
1989 Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West. Joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall.
Nov 10
1483 Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, was born in Eisleben, Germany. Died Feb. 18, 1546.
1925 Richard Burton, stage and film actor, was born. Died Aug. 5, 1984.
1853 The Great Western Railway line running from the Niagara Suspension Bridge to Hamilton, was opened.
1913 This was a tragic day on the Great Lakes. A storm that started Friday November 7 and raged through the weekend cost the lives of 251 seamen. Twenty-six ships were lost.
1919 The federal Parliament met for the last time in the Victoria Museum as a consequence of the destruction of the Parliament building by fire in 1916.
1975 The ore-hauling ship Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm in Lake Superior. All 29 crew members died.
Nov 11
1620 Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a "body politick."
1813 A British "corps of observation," consisting of 800 regulars, militia and Indians commanded by Lt-Col Joseph Morrison and established in a defensive position at John Chysler's farm near Morrisburg, was attacked by a contingent of the US army numbering about 4,000. This hard-fought engagement ended with the American's withdrawal from the battlefield.
1918 Fighting in World War I came to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany. The war resulted in 8 million killed and 21 million wounded.
Nov 12
1927 Josef Stalin became the ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.
1931 Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens, which was erected in six months during the Great Depression, opened.
1945 Neil Young, Canadian singer, was born.
1954 Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892.
1999 US president Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products.
1789 Lord Dorchester, as governor general, created the Order of the Unity of the Empire (UE) and proclaimed that this hereditary title was to be conferred upon those who had fought for the crown and had suffered as the King's faithful subjects during the American Revolutionary War.
1869 Actress Marie Dressler was born in Coburg.
1965 The great Northeast blackout occurred covering an area from Ontario to Florida and from Chicago to New York. The power failure started in the sir Adam Beck power generation station at Queenston and lasted up to 13 1/2 hours.
1989 Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West. Joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall.
Nov 10
1483 Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, was born in Eisleben, Germany. Died Feb. 18, 1546.
1925 Richard Burton, stage and film actor, was born. Died Aug. 5, 1984.
1853 The Great Western Railway line running from the Niagara Suspension Bridge to Hamilton, was opened.
1913 This was a tragic day on the Great Lakes. A storm that started Friday November 7 and raged through the weekend cost the lives of 251 seamen. Twenty-six ships were lost.
1919 The federal Parliament met for the last time in the Victoria Museum as a consequence of the destruction of the Parliament building by fire in 1916.
1975 The ore-hauling ship Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm in Lake Superior. All 29 crew members died.
Nov 11
1620 Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a "body politick."
1813 A British "corps of observation," consisting of 800 regulars, militia and Indians commanded by Lt-Col Joseph Morrison and established in a defensive position at John Chysler's farm near Morrisburg, was attacked by a contingent of the US army numbering about 4,000. This hard-fought engagement ended with the American's withdrawal from the battlefield.
1918 Fighting in World War I came to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany. The war resulted in 8 million killed and 21 million wounded.
Nov 12
1927 Josef Stalin became the ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.
1931 Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens, which was erected in six months during the Great Depression, opened.
1945 Neil Young, Canadian singer, was born.
1954 Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892.
1999 US president Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products.
07 November 2011
War of 1812
Battle of Tippecanoe 7 Nov. 1811 200th Anniversary
Ref; Pierre Burton, 'The Invasion of Canada 1812-1813' pages 69-77, for a detailed account of the battle??
Arguably the first engagement of the War of 1812 "It is not even a battle, more a minor skirmish, and indecisive, for Harrison, in spite of his claims, loses far more men than the Indians" [Harrison lost 37 soldiers, 150 wounded of whom 25 die of their injuries, The Indians lost 25 warriors].
William Henry Harrison was the governor of Indianna territory and wanted to raise it to statehood with more white settlers
For the Indians, led by Tecumseh's brother, "it will be the final incident that provokes them to follow Tecumseh to Canada, there to fight on the British side in the war of 1812"
Ref; Gilbert Collins 'Guidebook to the historic Sites of War of 1812' pg 59
"Today the battlefield of Tippecanoe is commemorated in the 90 Acre Tippecanoe Battlefield Park, which features a museum, with displays on the battle." for further info visit their website at www.tippecanoehistory.org
Ref; Pierre Burton, 'The Invasion of Canada 1812-1813' pages 69-77, for a detailed account of the battle??
Arguably the first engagement of the War of 1812 "It is not even a battle, more a minor skirmish, and indecisive, for Harrison, in spite of his claims, loses far more men than the Indians" [Harrison lost 37 soldiers, 150 wounded of whom 25 die of their injuries, The Indians lost 25 warriors].
William Henry Harrison was the governor of Indianna territory and wanted to raise it to statehood with more white settlers
For the Indians, led by Tecumseh's brother, "it will be the final incident that provokes them to follow Tecumseh to Canada, there to fight on the British side in the war of 1812"
Ref; Gilbert Collins 'Guidebook to the historic Sites of War of 1812' pg 59
"Today the battlefield of Tippecanoe is commemorated in the 90 Acre Tippecanoe Battlefield Park, which features a museum, with displays on the battle." for further info visit their website at www.tippecanoehistory.org
06 November 2011
Timeline Nov 6 to 8
Nov 6
1795 Major John Smith of the 5th Regt. of Foot, the first person to patent lands in Ontario County, received 5,000 acres - 200 in York and 4,800 in Pickering. Smith had been the commanding officer at Detroit from 1790 to 1792, and at Niagara from 1792 to 1795.
1814 The Battle of Malcolm's Mills (near Brantford) took place. The Canadian forces were overwhelmed by the American army.
1832 Joseph Smith III, American religious leader, president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints 1860-1914, was born.
1861 James A Naismith, who would invent basketball in 1891, was born at Almonte.
1911 Sir John Carling, brewer and politician, died at London.
Nov 7
1763 A fleet of small boats carrying nearly 700 officers and men of the 60th and 80th Regts. was forced ashore by a violent storm near Rondeau Point in Kent County. Some 70 men and 20 boats were lost.
1867 Marie Curie, the Polish-born French physicist twice awarded the Nobel Prize for her work on radioactivity, was born.
1917 Canadian army units from Ontario captured the village of Passchendale in France. Despite 7,000 Canadian casualties, only 1,280 acres of ground were gained.
1917 Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
Nov 8
1656 Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician, was born. Died Jan. 14, 1742.
1819 From Kingston east to Quebec City, noon skies were as dark as night because of immense forest fires in the west.
1867 The new Parliament of the Dominion of Canada opened.
1795 Major John Smith of the 5th Regt. of Foot, the first person to patent lands in Ontario County, received 5,000 acres - 200 in York and 4,800 in Pickering. Smith had been the commanding officer at Detroit from 1790 to 1792, and at Niagara from 1792 to 1795.
1814 The Battle of Malcolm's Mills (near Brantford) took place. The Canadian forces were overwhelmed by the American army.
1832 Joseph Smith III, American religious leader, president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints 1860-1914, was born.
1861 James A Naismith, who would invent basketball in 1891, was born at Almonte.
1911 Sir John Carling, brewer and politician, died at London.
Nov 7
1763 A fleet of small boats carrying nearly 700 officers and men of the 60th and 80th Regts. was forced ashore by a violent storm near Rondeau Point in Kent County. Some 70 men and 20 boats were lost.
1867 Marie Curie, the Polish-born French physicist twice awarded the Nobel Prize for her work on radioactivity, was born.
1917 Canadian army units from Ontario captured the village of Passchendale in France. Despite 7,000 Canadian casualties, only 1,280 acres of ground were gained.
1917 Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
Nov 8
1656 Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician, was born. Died Jan. 14, 1742.
1819 From Kingston east to Quebec City, noon skies were as dark as night because of immense forest fires in the west.
1867 The new Parliament of the Dominion of Canada opened.
03 November 2011
Timeline Nov 3 to 5
Nov 3
1843 Owing to lack of adequate housing facilities in Kingston for officials of the legislature of the United Canada, the decision was taken to transfer the capital to Montreal.
1873 In the House of Commons, Sir John A Macdonald delivered his famous five-hour speech in the face of charges of corruption - the Pacific Scandal.
1894 The first issue of Le Temps was published in Ottawa.
1957 One of the most advanced atomic energy reactors in the world was opened at Chalk River.
Nov 4
1858 Robert Simpson opend his first Canadian store in Newmarket.
1876 Mount Pleasant Cemetery opened in Toronto.
1956 Soviet troops moved in to crush a revolt in Hungary.
2008 Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States.
Nov 5
1873 A bleak day in the life of Sir John A Macdonald. Having been charged with accepting bribes in connection with the award of the transcontinental railway contract, his government was forced to resign.
1981 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau reached an accord with the premiers of all provinces of Canada except Quebec for the patriation of the constitution.
1843 Owing to lack of adequate housing facilities in Kingston for officials of the legislature of the United Canada, the decision was taken to transfer the capital to Montreal.
1873 In the House of Commons, Sir John A Macdonald delivered his famous five-hour speech in the face of charges of corruption - the Pacific Scandal.
1894 The first issue of Le Temps was published in Ottawa.
1957 One of the most advanced atomic energy reactors in the world was opened at Chalk River.
Nov 4
1858 Robert Simpson opend his first Canadian store in Newmarket.
1876 Mount Pleasant Cemetery opened in Toronto.
1956 Soviet troops moved in to crush a revolt in Hungary.
2008 Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States.
Nov 5
1873 A bleak day in the life of Sir John A Macdonald. Having been charged with accepting bribes in connection with the award of the transcontinental railway contract, his government was forced to resign.
1981 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau reached an accord with the premiers of all provinces of Canada except Quebec for the patriation of the constitution.
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