Pierre Berton - Flames Across the Border: 1813-1814

Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set-to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word. What is that word, honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore Ill none of it: honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.

Falstaff, in Shakespeares
Henry IV, Part 1, act 5, sc. I.

Copyright 1981 by Pierre Berton Enterprises Ltd.
Anchor Canada paperback edition 2001

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National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

Berton, Pierre, 1920
Flames across the border, 18131814

eISBN: 978-0-385-67359-4.

I. Canada History War of 1812.* 2. United States History War of 1812. I. Title.

FC442.B468 2001 971.034 C2001-930599-0
E355.B468 2001

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OVERVIEW
The All-Canadian War

AFTERVIEW
The Legacy

On the British-Canadian side

William Adams, Admiralty lawyer; commissioner at Ghent peace talks, 1814.

William Allan, York merchant; Major, 3rd Regiment, York Militia.

Robert Heriot Barclay, Commandant, British naval forces, Lake Erie, 1813.

Lord Bathurst, Secretary for War and the Colonies.

Cecil Bisshopp, Lieutenant-Colonel; Inspecting Field Officer of Militia, Upper Canada; led attack on Black Rock, 1813.

Shadrach By field, Private, Light Company, 1st Battalion, 41st Regiment.

Viscount Castlereagh, Foreign Secretary

George Cockburn, Rear-Admiral; second-in-command, British fleet off American east coast.

Francis De Rottenburg, Major-General; Commander-in-Chief and Administrator, Upper Canada, 1813, succeeding Major-General Roger Sheaffe.

Charles-Michel de Salaberry, Lieutenant-Colonel, Canadian Voltigeurs.

Robert Dickson, fur trader; Assistant Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Michigan Territory, 181315.

George Downie, Commandant, British naval forces, Lake Champlain, 1814.

Gordon Drummond, Lieutenant-General; Commander-in-Chief and Administrator, Upper Canada, 1814, succeeding Francis De Rottenburg.

Dominique Ducharme, Captain, Indian Department.

Matthew Elliott, Superintendent, Indian Department, Amherstburg.

James FitzGibbon, Captain, 49th Regiment.

James Gambier, Rear-Admiral; British commissioner at Ghent peace talks, 1814.

Henry Goulburn, British politician; commissioner at Ghent peace talks, 1814.

George Gleig, Lieutenant, 85th Regiment, attack on Washington, 1814.

John Harvey, Lieutenant-Colonel; deputy adjutant-general, British forces in Canada.

Lord Liverpool, Prime Minister, 181227.

George Macdonell, Lieutenant-Colonel, 2nd Battalion, Select Embodied Militia.

Robert McDouall, Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Newfoundland Regiment; aide to Sir George Prevost, 1813; commander at Michilimackinac, 1814.

William Hamilton Merritt, Captain; commander, Provincial Dragoons.

Sir George Prevost, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of His Majestys forces in Canada, the Atlantic Colonies, and Bermuda.

Henry Procter, Major-General; commander, Right Division, Detroit frontier, 1813.

Phineas Riall, Major-General; commander, Right Division, Niagara frontier, 1814.

John Richardson, gentleman volunteer, 1st Battalion, 41st Regiment.

John Beverley Robinson, Acting Attorney General, Upper Canada.

Robert Ross, Major-General; commander of army attacking Washington, August, 1814.