Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Verv soon after his return to Canada, Colonel Brock succeeded, on the 27th of September, 1806, to the command of the troops in the two provinces, with the pay and allowances of a brigadier, Colonel Bowes, oi' the 6th Foot, having resigned that command on his departure for England. At this time, the civil government of the lower province was administered by Mr. President Dunn ; and Colonel Brock resided at Quebec, in command of the forces, until the arrival, in October, 1807, of the governor-general, Sir James Craig, who appointed him to act as a brigadier, which appointment was confirmed by the king, to date from the 2d of July, 1808. Colonel JBrock to Lieut.-Colonel J. W. Gordon. Quebec, September 28, 1806. I have the honor to acquaint you, for the information of the commander-in-chief, that Colonel Bowes, preparatory to his departure for England, has resigned the command of his majesty's forces in this country, which, as the next senior officer, devolves on me. I have great pleasure in reporting to his royal highness the good order and discipline which, muchto the credit of Lieut.-Colonel Sheaffe, I found on my arrival to prevail among the eight companies of the 49th regiment, quartered in this garrison. Afterwards Major-General Barnard Foord Bowes, slain on the 2"th of 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 of July, 1813. It has been the fate of the 49th to be divided for the last four years and a half, several hundred miles apart; and however anxious I must be to assemble the whole together, I have not, considering the youth of the 100th regiment, which alone af...