Tecumseh and Brock (37 page)

Chapter 6: The Prophet

1. Benjamin Drake,
   Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet; with a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians
   (Cincinnati: E. Morgan, 1841), 105.
   
2. Ibid., 63.
   
3. Ibid., 86.
   
4. Ibid., 86–88.
   
5. Ibid., 87.
   
6. Roger L. Di Silvestro,
   In the Shadow of Wounded Knee
   (New York: Walker, 2007), 65.
   
7. Benjamin Drake,
   Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet; with a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians
   (Cincinnati: E. Morgan, 1841), 88.
   
8. Arthur J. Leighton, “‘Eyes on the Wabash': A History of Indiana's Indian People from Pre-Contact through Removal” (Ph.D thesis, Purdue University, 2007), 228.
   
9. John Sugden,
   Tecumseh: A Life
   (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), 122–23.
   
10. Benjamin Drake,
    Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet; with a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians
    (Cincinnati: E. Morgan, 1841), 88.
    
11. Ibid., 89.
    
12. Ibid., 89–90.
    
13. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, Esq., ed.,
    The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.
    (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1847), 243, 244.
    
14. R. David Edmunds,
    The Shawnee Prophet
    (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985), 104.
    
15. Benjamin Drake,
    Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet; with a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians
    (Cincinnati: E. Morgan, 1841), 146.
    
16. Jay Feldman,
    When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
    (New York: Free Press, 2005), 77.
    
17. Ibid., 77–78.
    
18. Ibid., 78.
    
19. Ibid., 197.
    
20. Ibid., 79–80.
    
21. Ibid., 81–82.
    
22. Colonel H. R. Gordon,
    Tecumseh, Chief of the Shawanoes: A Tale of the War of 1812
    (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1898), 66.
    
23. Jay Feldman,
    When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
    (New York: Free Press, 2005), 83.
    

Chapter 7: Brock on the Eve of War

1. Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty,
   Canada and Its Provinces
   , vol. 4
   (Toronto: Publishers' Association of Canada, 1914), 209.
   
2. Jac Weller,
   Wellington at Waterloo
   (Barnsley, UK: Greenhill Books, 1992), 24.
   
3. Jon Latimer,
   1812: War with America
   (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 8–9.
   
4. Stuart Reid,
   British Redcoat, 1793–1815
   (Oxford: Osprey, 1997), 18–21.
   
5. Ibid., 24.
   
6. Gregory Fremont-Barnes,
   The Royal Navy, 1793–1815
   (Oxford: Osprey, 2007), 54–57.
   
7. Jon Latimer,
   1812: War with America
   (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 8.
   
8. John Keegan,
   Battle at Sea: From Man-of-War to Submarine
   (London: Pimlico, 2004), 6.
   
9. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, Esq.,
   The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.
   (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1847), 123–24.
   
10. Brock to Colonel Baynes, the Adj.-General, York, 12 February 1812, in
    The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.
    , ed. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, Esq. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1847), 150.
    
11. Brock to Sir George Prevost, York, 16 May 1812, in T
    he Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.
    , ed. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, Esq. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1847), 174.
    
12. Brock to Lieut.-General Sir G. Prevost, Bart., at Quebec, York, 2 December 1811, in
    The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.
    , ed. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, Esq. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1847), 127–28.
    
13. Ibid., 128.
    
14. Ibid., 129.
    
15. Ibid., 124.
    
16. Ibid., 123–24.
    
17. Ibid., 124.
    
18. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, Esq., ed.,
    The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock
    , K.B. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1847), 144, 145.
    
19. Brock to Sir George Prevost, York, February 1812, in
    The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.
    , ed. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, Esq. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1847), 153.
    
20. Sir Isaac Brock Papers, M.G. 24, A1, vol. 1, 26–27, National Archives of Canada.
    
21. Prevost to Brock, 30 April 1812, Sir Isaac Brock Papers, M.G. 24, A1, vol. 1, NAC Reel C-4621, National Archives of Canada.
    
22. Prevost to Brock, 27 May 1812, Sir Isaac Brock Papers, M.G. 24, A1, vol. 1, 26–27, National Archives of Canada.
    

Chapter 8: The United States Declares War
on Great Britain

1. Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States, during the War with Great Britain in the Years 1812, 13, 14 & 15
   , collected and annotated by John Brannan (Washington, 1823), 12–14.
   
2. Ibid., 12–15.
   
3. Walter Borneman,
   1812: The War that Forged a Nation
   (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 49, 50.
   
4. D. B. Read, Q.C.,
   Life and Times of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock
   ,
   K.B.
   (Toronto: William Briggs, 1894), 121–24.
   
5. Ibid., 127–28.
   
6. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, Esq., ed.,
   The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.
   (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1847), 197, 198.
   
7. Brock to Prevost, 3 July 1812, Sir Isaac Brock Papers, M.G. 24, A1, vol. 1, NAC Reel C-4621, National Archives of Canada.
   
8. Prevost to Brock, 7 July 1812, Sir Isaac Brock Papers, M.G. 24, A1, vol. 1, 26–27, National Archives of Canada.
   
9. Prevost to Brock, 10 July 1812, Sir Isaac Brock Papers, M.G. 24, A1, vol. 1, NAC Reel C-4621, National Archives of Canada.
   
10. Walter Borneman,
    1812: The War that Forged a Nation
    (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 57.
    
11. William James,
    A Full and Correct Account of The Military Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and The United States Of America, with an Appendix and Plates
    , vol. 1
    (London, 1818), 77.
    
12. Donald R. Hickey,
    The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict
    (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995), 74.
    
13. Jefferson to General Thaddeus Kosciusko, 28 June 1812, Monticello, in
    The Works of Thomas Jefferson
    , 12 vols., federal edition (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904–5), 258.
    
14. Hickey, Donald R.,
    The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict
    (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995), 88.
    
15. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds.,
    Encyclopedia of the War of 1812
    ,
    paperback edition (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004), 247–49, 417–18.
    
16. A. J. Langguth,
    Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence,
    paperback edition (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), 178.
    
17. William Hull,
    Memoirs of the Campaign of the North Western Army of the United States, A. D. 1812: In a Series of Letters Addressed to the Citizens of the United States
    (Boston: True and Greene, 1824), 40–41.
    
18. Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States, during the War with Great Britain in the Years 1812, 13, 14 & 15
    , collected and annotated by John Brannan (Washington, 1823), 30, 31.
    
19. William Hull,
    Memoirs of the Campaign of the North Western Army of the United States, A. D. 1812: In a Series of Letters Addressed to the Citizens of the United States
    (Boston: True and Greene, 1824), 47.
    
20. Ibid., 44.
    
21. Gilbert Collins,
    Guidebook to the Historic Sites of the War of 1812
    (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2006), 47.
    
22. Ibid.
    
23. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, Esq., ed.,
    The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.
    (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1847), 209–11.
    
24. Brock to Sir George Prevost, York, 4 August 1812, in
    The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.
    , ed. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, Esq. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1847), 232–33.
    
25. Prevost to Brock, 31 July 1812, Sir Isaac Brock Papers, M.G. 24, A1, vol. 1, NAC Reel C-4621, National Archives of Canada.
    
26. Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States, during the War with Great Britain in the Years 1812, 13, 14 & 15
    , collected and annotated by John Brannan (Washington, 1823), 34–35.
    
27. A. T. Mahan,
    The Sea War of 1812: A History of the Maritime Conflict,
    vol. 2 (n.p.: Leonaur, 2008), 409.
    
28. Prevost to Brock, Quebec, 31 July 1812, Sir Isaac Brock papers, M.G. 24, A1, vol. 1, National Archives of Canada.
    
29. Prevost to Brock, Quebec, 2 August 1812, Sir Isaac Brock papers, M.G. 24, A1, vol. 1, National Archives of Canada.
    
30. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds.,
    Encyclopedia of the War of 1812
    , paperback edition (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004), 248.
    
31. Samuel Williams,
    Two Western Campaigns in the War of 1812–13
    (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke, 1870), 29.
    

Chapter 9: Two Warriors

1. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, Esq., ed.,
   The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.
   (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1847), 241.
   
2. Ibid., 243, 244.
   
3. Ethel T. Raymond,
   Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People
   (Gutenberg Project Ebook 24147, 2008; originally published in Toronto as vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada, 1915), 14.
   
4. Benjamin Drake,
   Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet; with a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians
   (Cincinnati: E. Morgan, 1841), 224.
   
5. Ethel T. Raymond,
   Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People
   (Gutenberg Project Ebook 24147, 2008;
   originally published in Toronto as vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada, 1915
   ), 14.
   
6. Ibid., 15.
   
7. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, Esq., ed.,
   The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock
   , K.B.
   (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1847), 308.
   
8. A. J. Langguth,
   Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
   , paperback edition (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), 188.
   

Chapter 10: The Capture of Fort Detroit

1. A. J. Langguth,
   Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
   , paperback edition (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), 191.
   
2. Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States, during the War with Great Britain in the Years 1812, 13, 14 & 15
   , collected and annotated by John Brannan (Washington, 1823), 41.
   
3. Ibid.
   
4. A. J. Langguth,
   Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
   , paperback edition (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), 191–92.
   
5. Jon Latimer,
   1812: War with America
   (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 66.
   
6. Ibid.
   
7. Duncan Campbell Scott and Lady Matilda Edgar.
   John Graves Simcoe and General Brock
   (Toronto: Morang, 1910), 253–54.
   
8. Hull to Hon. W. Eustis, Secretary of the Department of War, Fort George, 26 August 1812, in
   Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States, during the War with Great Britain in the Years 1812, 13, 14 & 15
   , collected and annotated by John Brannan (Washington, 1823), 44–49.
   
9. Brock to Sir George Prevost, Head Quarters, Detroit, 16 August 1812, in
   The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.
   , ed. Ferdinand Brock Tupper, Esq. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1847), 269.
   
10. Lewis Cass, Col. 3d reg. Ohio volunteers to The Hon. William Eustis, Secretary of War, Washington, September 10, 1812, in
    Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States, during the War with Great Britain in the Years 1812, 13, 14 & 15
    , collected and annotated by John Brannan (Washington, 1823), 56–60.
    
11. Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty,
    Canada and Its Provinces
    , vol. 3 (Toronto: Publishers' Association of Canada, 1914), 224.
    
12. Jon Latimer,
    1812: War with America
    (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 68; and A. J. Langguth,
    Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
    , paperback edition (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), 194.
    
13. Jon Latimer,
    1812: War with America
    (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 68.
    
14. A. J. Langguth,
    Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
    , paperback edition (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), 194.
    
15. Brock to the Earl of Liverpool, York, Upper Canada, 29 August, 1812, Colonial Office Records, Indian Affairs Canada. RG 10, vol. 10017, Canada Q. 315,
    Library and Archives Canada, 118.
    
16. Stephen Ruddell,
    Reminiscences of Tecumseh's Youth
    (Wisconsin Historical Society, 2003), 123; online facsimile edition at http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-155.
    
17. A. J. Langguth,
    Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
    , paperback edition (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), 195–96.
    
18. Ibid., 198.
    
19. Ibid., 273.
    

Chapter 11: Death of the General

1. A. J. Langguth,
   Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
   , paperback edition (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), 211.
   
2. Solomon Van Rensselaer,
   A Narrative of the Affair of Queenstown: In the War of 1812
   (New York: Leavitt, Lord, 1836), 9.
   
3. Ibid., 10–14.
   
4. Ibid., 13.
   
5. Ibid., 30.
   
6. Ibid., 10–12.
   
7. Ibid., 41–42.
   
8. Jon Latimer,
   1812: War with America
   (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 75.
   
9. Solomon Van Rensselaer,
   A Narrative of the Affair of Queenstown: In the War of 1812
   (New York: Leavitt, Lord, 1836), 18–19.
   
10. Ibid., 72–73.
    
11. William James,
    A Full and Correct Account of The Military Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and The United States Of America, with an Appendix and Plates,
    vol. 1
    (London, 1818), 87.
    
12. Carl Benn,
    The Iroquois in the War of 1812
    (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998), 89.
    
13. Ibid., 36, 37, 39–41.
    
14. Solomon Van Rensselaer,
    A Narrative of the Affair of Queenstown: In the War of 1812,
    appendix
    (New York: Leavitt, Lord, 1836), 72.
    
15. Ibid.
    
16. Ibid., appendix, 64.
    
17. Jon Latimer,
    1812: War with America
    (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 77–79.
    
18. Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty,
    Canada and Its Provinces,
    vol. 3
    (Toronto: Publishers' Association of Canada, 1914), 232.
    
19. Ibid., 233.
    
20. Jon Latimer,
    1812: War with America
    (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 79–80.
    
21. Carl Benn,
    The Iroquois in the War of 1812
    (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998), 8, 47, 91.
    
22. Jon Latimer,
    1812: War with America
    (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 81; and Carl Benn,
    The Iroquois in the War of 1812
    (Toronto:
    University of Toronto Press, 1998), 91.
    
23. Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty,
    Canada and Its Provinces
    , vol. 3 (Toronto: Publishers' Association of Canada, 1914), 234–35.
    
24. Carl Benn,
    The Iroquois in the War of 1812
    (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998), 94–96.
    
25. Ibid., 96.
    
26. Ibid., 94–96.
    
27. Ibid., 103.
    
28. Solomon Van Rensselaer,
    A Narrative of the Affair of Queenstown: In the War of 1812
    (New York: Leavitt, Lord, 1836), 62–67.
    
29. A. J. Langguth,
    Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
    , paperback edition (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), 217–18.